Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 DERRY'S CROSS, Plymouth
740-1/57/362 Clock Tower
01/05/75

GV II

Free-standing clock tower. Plymouth limestone ashlar and
darker granite bands; weathered stone roof surmounted by an
octagonal cast-iron spire with weather vane. Square plan.
EXTERIOR: slightly tapered tower with moulded plinth to
pedestal base with carved trefoil-arched drinking-fountain
niche central to each of 3 sides, the 4th side with a similar
doorway and with trailing carved detail within its half-domed
niche. Cusped and carved hoods over shields to each side
mid-way up the tower. Machicolated cornice below narrower
clock stage with turned corner shafts flanked by carved detail
and carved and moulded eaves cornice. The bellcote has trefoil
arcade with pierced spandrels on turned shafts; the spire has
similar pierced detail.
This building, and the Bank (qv) are the only buildings in
this immediate part of Plymouth to survive the Blitz. To many
of the citizens this clock seemed to be a symbol of defiance
against the enemy and it appeared to offer a promise that
Plymouth would rise again from the ashes.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
667).

Listing NGR: SX4758154384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Derry's Clock Tower at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26423137

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)