Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower
Wellington Clock Tower

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The work was built in 1854 at the southern approach to London Bridge but brought to Swanage by George Burt in 1868. The spire of the tower, which held a statue of Wellington was removed in 1904. It was designed as a memorial to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Mowlem and Burt. It is a square stone structure, of three stages, with the lower two stages solid, the upper stage open, supporting an ogee-shaped cupola, (replacing a former spire). The lowest stage has, in each face, a two-centred arch doorway with an ogee canopy in a square frame. The second stage, above a carved band course, has a two light segmental arched window with a circular window above, under a crocketted gable. The top stage consists of four piers supporting two centre cusped arches with ogee canopies carrying the cupola, and double angled buttresses with gabled crocketted tops.
Title

Wellington Clock Tower

Date

1854

Medium

stone

Accession number

BH19_NRW_S006

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Commissioners for Lighting the West Division of Southwark

Work type

Clock tower

Owner

Swanage Town Council

Custodian

Swanage Town Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

26/06/52

Access

at all times

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Located at

Peveril Point Road, Swanage

BH19 2AT

Located on the seawall near the RNLI lifeboat station.