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| clock tower, Grange-over-Sands | ||
| Deardon Clocktower | ||
| locality:- | Grange-over-Sands | |
| civil parish:- | Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | clock tower | |
| coordinates:- | SD40747785 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4077 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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 BLM98.jpg (taken 31.12.2005) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CLOCK TOWER / / MAIN STREET / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460537 / SD4074277852" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Clock tower. 1912. Snecked limestone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and 8-sided slate roof. Of square plan with tapering diagonal buttresses which terminate above eaves level, where each is carved with a reversed 'S'. Each side has a tall glazed slit opening above a string course, and a clock face with ashlar surround. Below the overhanging eaves each face has a 3-light mullioned opening. At ground level the west side has a moulded doorway. Above is a plaque inscribed: 'AMORIS DOMUM 1912'." |
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| observation:- |
A plaque nearby:- |
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| "At midday on 4th December 1912, Mrs Sophia Deardon, a local benefactor, presented
this clocktower to Grange. ..." |
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| Over the door to the tower:- |
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| "AMURIS DUNUM 1912" |
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| The tower is built of local limestone, and sandstone from St Bees. |
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