Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 DERRY'S CROSS, Plymouth 740-1/57/362 Clock Tower 01/05/75

GV II

Free-standing clock tower. Plymouth limestone ashlar and darker granite bands; weathered stone roof surmounted by an octagonal cast-iron spire with weather vane. Square plan. EXTERIOR: slightly tapered tower with moulded plinth to pedestal base with carved trefoil-arched drinking-fountain niche central to each of 3 sides, the 4th side with a similar doorway and with trailing carved detail within its half-domed niche. Cusped and carved hoods over shields to each side mid-way up the tower. Machicolated cornice below narrower clock stage with turned corner shafts flanked by carved detail and carved and moulded eaves cornice. The bellcote has trefoil arcade with pierced spandrels on turned shafts; the spire has similar pierced detail. This building, and the Bank (qv) are the only buildings in this immediate part of Plymouth to survive the Blitz. To many of the citizens this clock seemed to be a symbol of defiance against the enemy and it appeared to offer a promise that Plymouth would rise again from the ashes. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 667).



Listing NGR: SX4758154384

External Links

• Derry's Clock Tower at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26423137

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)