Stocksbridge Clock Tower

Heritage listing

Details Clock tower built as First World War memorial. 1923 to designs by Wynyard Dixon. Two additional plaques added after the Second World War. MATERIALS: rock-faced gritstone to exterior with brick interior walls. PLAN: the square tower has two stages, a wider, lower stage forming a walled terrace around the upper, square clock tower. It faces south onto Nanny Lane with a gateway off the pavement opening directly onto the terrace and a doorway behind to the tower. EXTERIOR: the clock tower is built in a Gothic style. It stands in a prominent location on the north side of Nanny Hill where the land falls away steeply to the valley bottom. The lower stage acts as a platform to bring the upper clock tower stage up to the road level. Both stages are built of squared and coursed blocks of rock-faced stone with ashlar detailing. The lower stage has a battlemented parapet with crenellations of overhanging, chamfered ashlar blocks which also forms a wall to the terrace. The clock tower has a corbel table to crenellated battlements with two cross arrow embrasures to each face. The concealed roof has a central flag pole. The clock tower faces south onto the road. The central doorway has a shallow pointed arch with chamfered and stopped ashlar jamb stones, recessed spandrels and chamfered hood mould. The panelled oak door has a modern aluminium plaque attached commemorating the centenary war memorial rededication of the tower. Over the doorway is a horizontal bronze plaque set into the stone work. It has an inscription of relief lettering reading: “TO THE HONOUR AND EVERLASTING MEMORY / OF THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND NURSE OF / THIS DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918.” Flanking the doorway are two vertical rectangular bronze p

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.