Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4029
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Clock Tower
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258256
Northing
372143
Street Side
Location
At the junction with Garth Road; island site.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Built 1886-7’ architect, A Neill of Leeds and builder T J Humphreys of Bangor. "Erected and presented to the city of Bangor by Aldn Thomas Lewis J P Garth-‘ewen during his Mayorality as a Token of his interest in the Welfare of the City" (inscription on tablet to SE side).
Exterior
Square red brick tower with plinth and freestone dressings, including clock face surrounds over dentil cornice; timber octagonal 2-stage cupola with weathervane. Bracketed round arched hoods to clock faces which have reed and bobbin borders. Below the corners are rounded and flanked by projecting pilaster buttresses. Steps up to square headed entrance on NW side with lintel and multipanelled modern door; slate tablet over inscribed in both languages refers to the 1986 restoration. Slit windows with hand made brick stepped voussoirs. Tablet to SE side (inscribed as above) is set in Baroque frame with volute bracketed pediment, enriched pilasters and scalloped base; ‘TL’ Monogram on keystone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 268 to 272.
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