Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clock Tower
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22736, -4.12481
- Cadw reference
- 4029
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the junction with Garth Road; island site.
History
Built 1886-7’ architect, A Neill of Leeds and builder T J Humphreys of Bangor. "Erected and presented to the city of Bangor by Aldn Thomas Lewis J P Garth-‘ewen during his Mayorality as a Token of his interest in the Welfare of the City" (inscription on tablet to SE side).
Exterior
Square red brick tower with plinth and freestone dressings, including clock face surrounds over dentil cornice; timber octagonal 2-stage cupola with weathervane. Bracketed round arched hoods to clock faces which have reed and bobbin borders. Below the corners are rounded and flanked by projecting pilaster buttresses. Steps up to square headed entrance on NW side with lintel and multipanelled modern door; slate tablet over inscribed in both languages refers to the 1986 restoration. Slit windows with hand made brick stepped voussoirs. Tablet to SE side (inscribed as above) is set in Baroque frame with volute bracketed pediment, enriched pilasters and scalloped base; ‘TL’ Monogram on keystone.
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 268 to 272.
Nearby in the register
- Alliance & Leicester Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyds BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lly's GwyneddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.