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Latitude: 52.3444 / 52°20'39"N
Longitude: -3.0499 / 3°2'59"W
OS Eastings: 328576
OS Northings: 272329
OS Grid: SO285723
Mapcode National: GBR B4.TFSB
Mapcode Global: VH76P.3B0N
Plus Code: 9C4R8XV2+P3
Entry Name: Clock Tower
Listing Date: 30 September 1985
Last Amended: 30 September 1985
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 8989
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300008989
Location: Occupying prominent island site in centre of town at junction of Broad/West and High Streets.
County: Powys
Community: Knighton (Tref-y-clawdd)
Community: Knighton
Built-Up Area: Knighton
Traditional County: Radnorshire
Tagged with: Clock tower
Dated 1872: By Haddon Brothers, Architects of Hereford.
High Victorian Gothic (influence of Burges), grey rubble facings with pale freestone dressings, slate roofs (cf Hay-on-Wye clock tower). Tall square tower with chamfered angles on stone plinth set in slope. Pyramidal roof in 2 stages with open bell stage between, weathervane on top, lucarnes to each face. Moulded eaves with machicolations, round clock face recessed in pointed arched frame. Brace plates, linked hoodmoulds and continuous stringcourse. Scalloped corbels to angles with 3 trefoils between. 2 arrow slits to each face. Heraldic band with set offs below and diagonal buttresses with punched trefoil cappings. Arched openings between, buttresses with hood mouldings and nook shafts - 1 blind and 2 traceried windows, 1 double cusped arch to entrance with boarded door.
Tablet and inscription at base of Clock Tower reads:-
"This Tower and Clock was presented to the Town of Knighton by the late Thomas Moore Esq of Old Hall AD 1872/"Bezant - Clockmaker, Hereford/ Welsh and Son - Contractor, Hereford/Haddon - Architect, Hereford"
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