Building Name

Clock Tower: Queens Park, Victoria Avenue, Crewe

Date
1888
Street
Victoria Avenue
District/Town
Crewe
County/Country
Cheshire, England
Architect
Client
Employees of the London and North Western Railway
Work
New build
Listed
Grade II

The clock tower was paid for by the employees of the London and North Western Railway, and was designed by John Brooke. It has a stone base containing medallions with portraits of Queen Victoria and members of the railway board. From this rises a shaft in striped brick that carries a projecting stone cap with clock faces on four sides. Above the clock faces are pediments, and on top of the tower is elaborate wrought iron cresting with a weathervane.