Town Clock - Waverley Building - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - Town Clocks on Waymarking.com

Clocks on the Waverley building, part of Nottingham Trent University which has a magnificent collection of buildings with a wide range of architectural styles.

The clock has a white face with black roman numerals and hands and is fitted in a square dome with colourful fish-scale tiles.

"Formerly known as: College of Art & Design WAVERLEY STREET. Art college, now university building. 1863-65. By Frederick Bakewell of Nottingham. Altered mid C20. Ashlar, with pink granite columns, encaustic tile frieze, and slate roof. Italianate style. Rockfaced plinth, rusticated ground floor and rebated quoins, minor cornice, modillion eaves cornice with brackets. Replica balustrade with pedestals. 2 storeys plus basement; 3:1:3 bays. Windows are casements. Central square tower porch, 2 storeys, with unglazed openings on each floor. Above, a square tower with traceried windows, square dome with fish-scale tiles, clock faces, and turret finial. On each side, 3 windows, those to the ground floor plain. First floor has shafts and moulded surrounds to the windows, with portrait medallions of artists and architect on the quoins. Returns have a central panelled and coped stack, flanked by single windows on each floor.
INTERIOR remodelled mid C20, with concrete return flight staircase. The college was established to encourage design in lace, etc."

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Status: Working Display: Mounted Year built: 01/01/1865 Web link to additional info: Not listed

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