Jubilee Clock Tower and Attached Walls and Railings Churchill, England
Listed Building Data
Jubilee Clock Tower and Attached Walls and Railings has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1129198
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 19 January 1987
- Name
- JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
- Location
- JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, FRONT STREET
- Parish
- Churchill
- District
- North Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 44390 59739
- Easting
- 344390.0000
- Northing
- 159739.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ST 45 NW CHURCHILL C.P. FRONT STREET (east side)
8/79 Jubilee Clock Tower and attached Walls and Railings
G.V. II
Clock Tower, Walls and Railings. Dated 1897 (on inscription), restored 1977. By Foster and Wood of Bristol. Squared and coursed rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Free-form Gothic style. 2 storeys. Square on plan with set back buttresses to 1st floor string course which develop from consoles into clasping buttresses which in turn carry the pyramidal roof. Doorway to south face with 2 trefoil-cusped side lights under paterae frieze. Projecting, buttressed drinking fountain niche with cast iron furnishings to east face. Cast iron clock faces to each facade, inscription on string course below bell stage which has 3 cusped and panelled tracery lights in paterae surrounds to each facade. Bracketted eaves cornice. Attached walls, 0.5 metres high, with 1 metre piers with coved tops at regular intervals. Plain spear railings with wrought iron decorative panels at intervals. 1 similar patterned gate to south side of enclosure. The Clock Tower, which forms an important visual element at the apex of Front Street, was erected by Sidney Hill of Langford House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: ST4439059739
