Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW MILTON STREET
646-1/14/432 (East side)
12/07/72 Victoria Centre Clock Tower
(Formerly Listed as:
MILTON STREET
Victoria Station Tower)

GV II

Former station clock tower, now an ornamental feature.
1898-1900. By AE Lambert for the Great Central Railway Co.
Retained as part of the Victoria Centre, 1965-72, by Arthur
Swift & Partners. Red brick, with ashlar dressings. Baroque
Revival style.
Square tower, 3 stages, with clasping buttresses, cornice and
balustrade with corner turrets and balconies. Copper-clad dome
with 4 pedimented round-arched windows, domed cupola and wind
vane. Ground floor has an ashlar front with a round-arched
recess with voussoirs, panelled door and overlight with
segmental pediment and triple keystone. Above it, a canted
stone oriel window, 4 lights. Top stage has on each side a
flush niche framing a clock dial, with balcony and segmental
pediment on brackets.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 241).

Listing NGR: SK5732540323

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560657

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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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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)