Description

ST 8032-8132 MERE THE SQUARE
(west side)

6/76 Clock Tower

GV II

Clock tower. Dated 1868. Rock faced limestone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate
roof, wooden turret and ventilating louvre. Square plan with one offset
diagonal buttress, pyramidal roof broached to octagonal stage with clock on two
faces, further small slated pyramid to louvred crowning feature with weather-
cock. Plain plank doors to moulded arch in east front with drip to leaf stops
under panel 'Albert Edward 1868' and the Prince of Wales feathers. Blind lancet
north and south, leaded glazed to west; corbel table cornice to main roof.
Small gabled lucarne each face of roof slope. Holds an important position in
centre of former market place, on the site occupied by the Market House until
1863. The present clock tower was given to the town by H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales.

Listing NGR: ST8124732362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423721

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)