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The clock tower is in brick with banding and dressings in sandstone. The tower is square on a cruciform base with corner buttresses. In the lowest stage are seats under canopies. Above are three-light mullioned windows, and higher are lozenge windows. The clock stage has corbels, and circular clock faces with keystones.
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
6th tallest freestanding clock tower in the world. A UNESCO World Heritage site [60] 44: Allen-Bradley Clock Tower: 85.3 m (280 ft) 4: Yes: 1963: Tower Building: Clock Tower: USA: Milwaukee: Clock faces are 12.25 m (40.2 ft) [61] 45: Manchester Town Hall: 85.3 m (280 ft) 4: Yes: 1877: Tower Building: Government: United Kingdom: Manchester ...
Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave with a south aisle and a north transept, and a chancel with its roof at a lower level. In the angle between the transept and the chancel is a vestry. The tower has three stages with corner buttresses. There is a west door with three lancet windows above it. On the west and south sides of the middle ...
Clark Street Congregational Church, in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, was built in 1863 and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. [1] It provided seating for 350 people. [2] The chapel has a northwest tower, a southwest porch, and windows containing plate tracery. [3] The church closed before 1980, [4] and has been converted into ...
Morecambe and the neighbouring village of Heysham are the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos novel The Weird Shadow over Morecambe, published by the writer Edmund Glasby in 2014. [48] The title of the book is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft 's story " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", which is also set in a seaside town.
In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3] The oldest surviving turret clock formerly part of a clock tower in Europe is the Salisbury Cathedral clock , completed in 130.
Silverdale is a village and civil parish within the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England.The village stands on Morecambe Bay, near the border with Cumbria, 4.5 miles (7 km) north west of Carnforth and 8.5 miles (14 km) of Lancaster.