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Latitude: 50.7124 / 50°42'44"N
Longitude: -2.4413 / 2°26'28"W
OS Eastings: 368938
OS Northings: 90396
OS Grid: SY689903
Mapcode National: GBR PY.RLTR
Mapcode Global: FRA 57S6.6QD
Plus Code: 9C2VPH65+WF
Entry Name: Clock Tower in Public Gardens
Listing Date: 8 May 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290747
English Heritage Legacy ID: 394585
ID on this website: 101290747
Location: Borough Gardens, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Dorchester
Built-Up Area: Dorchester
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Dorchester and West Stafford
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Clock tower
WEST WALKS ROAD
1.
5l9l
(West Side)
Clock Tower in
Public Gardens.
SY 6890 7/308
II
2.
l905. Cast iron on moulded granite plinth. Octagonal shaft each side, with
2 tiers of moulded panels and quatrefoil clustered colonnettes at corners,linked
to each other by arches of drop tracery. Clock stage is 4-sided (4 clocks),
the upper corners decorated with sphinxbusts on consoles. Entablature, cardinal
sides crowned by small pediments. Onion dome, fish scales and elaborate weathervane.
Cardinal sides have inscriptions at base level: "This clock and tower were presented
to the Borough of Dorchester by Charles Hansford Esq A.D. 1905". Above this
2 cartouches placed above each other, lower with relief head of Charles Hansford,
upper with relief of Borough Arms".
Listing NGR: SY6893890396
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