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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.
Morecambe (/ ˈ m ɔːr k ə m / MOR-kəm [2] [3]) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, on Morecambe Bay, part of the Irish Sea. In 2011 the parish had a population of 34,768.
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 ...
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The Midland Hotel is a Streamline Moderne building in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), in 1933, to the designs of architect Oliver Hill, with sculpture by Eric Gill, and murals by Eric Ravilious (subsequently destroyed). [1] [2] It is a Grade II* listed building.
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.
Clock tower. The hotel's clock tower, at 190 feet (58 m) high, is a prominent landmark in Edinburgh's city centre. [2] The clock has been maintained by the Scottish clockmakers James Ritchie & Son and its subsidiary Smith of Derby since 1902. The clock is famously set to run three minutes fast, to give passengers more time to catch their trains ...