Description

GREAT HARWOOD TOWN HALL SQUARE SD 73 SW 2/80 Mercer Memorial Tower - GV II

Memorial Clock Tower, 1903, to John Mercer (1791-1866: industrial chemist, inventor of "mercerisation"), by A.H. Dunkin (Surveyor to Urban District Council); clock by William Potts & Sons of Leeds. Sandstone ashlar with red Scotch granite shafts and colonnettes, copper-clad dome. Free Baroque style. Square base carrying a 2-stage domed turret. Open base of 4 rounded arches with shafts and keystones, the corners clasped by banded Ionic pilasters, has lettered tablets over the archies, a moulded cornice, and a balustrade with large finials at the corners. Turret has tall 1st stage with pilastered diagonal corners and tall narrow windows with Gibbs surrounds; short 2nd stage has 4 clock faces, paired colonnettes at the corners, prominent octagonal cornice, and a copper-clad dome with louvres at the angles and a finial. (History: Louie Pollard Great Harwood Gleanings pp. 117-8).

Listing NGR: SD7320532218

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)