Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Memorial Clock Tower
Marloes and St. Brides, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 4 July 1979
- Locality
- Marloes
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Marloes and St. Brides
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73109, -5.19689
- Cadw reference
- 13019
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the centre of the village of Marloes, to the N of the main street and some 250m NW of the Church of Saint Peter.
History
Memorial clock-tower built in 1904 to the memory of the 4th Baron Kensington by the Pembrokeshire Liberal Association. Said to have been erected under the supervision of Lord Kensington's agent John Fergusson. An attractive design influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. The clock was made by J.W. Benson of London.
Exterior
Clock tower, rubble stone battered square tower some 20' (6 metres) high with S doorway and small side windows at mid height. Doorway has slab lintel carried on rounded corbels. Timber low clock-stage with clock-face each side flanked by louvred square panels under overhanging bellcast pyramid slate roof with lead finial. Plaque over door records that the tower was built in memory of William 4th Baron Kensington, died October 1896, by members of the Pembrokeshire Liberal Association.
Reason for designation
An unusual Arts-and-Crafts-influenced design, the focal point of Marloes village.
Nearby in the register
- Marloes Village HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- WintertonDomesticunder 1 mi
- MusselwickDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.