Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
8989
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Clock Tower
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Easting
328576
Northing
272329
Street Side
Location
Occupying prominent island site in centre of town at junction of Broad/West and High Streets.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Dated 1872: By Haddon Brothers, Architects of Hereford.
Exterior
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"
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value
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