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Latitude: 52.5833 / 52°34'59"N
Longitude: -2.1689 / 2°10'7"W
OS Eastings: 388654
OS Northings: 298400
OS Grid: SO886984
Mapcode National: GBR 13L.DB
Mapcode Global: WHBFY.NBDF
Plus Code: 9C4VHRMJ+8F
Entry Name: Clock Tower West of Ash Hill House
Listing Date: 15 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387408
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475369
Location: Wolverhampton, WV3
County: Wolverhampton
Electoral Ward/Division: Tettenhall Wightwick
Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Tettenhall Wood Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
SO 89 NE ASH HILL
Compton
895-1/4/10032 Clock Tower west of
Ash Hill House
II
Memorial clock tower. 1926, for Davis Green. Timber-framed with plastered panels. Stone tile roofs. Square plan tower in three stages, the lower stage has octagonal plan loggia with carved brackets to the posts which rise through the pentice roof to form pinnacles above; pinnacles also at the corners of the second stage which is close-studded, has cusped headed windows and wrought-iron clock face on east side; belfry above with pyramidal roof with gablets and weathervane, and with four bells. Under the loggia there are benches with carved strapwork panels above , inscribed with the verses from Annie Hilda Green's poem The Silverdale Clock Chimes' NOTE: This tower was built in the garden of Ash Hill House for Davis Green [a local industrialist] as a memorial to his first wife Annie Hilda Green who died in 1926. The inscriptions are verses from her poem The Silverdale Clock Chimes'.
Listing NGR: SO8865498400
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