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ArtistMaker: not known
TitleOfWork: Wickersley clock
DescriptionOfPhoto: general view
DateOfCreation: 1995
Dimensions: Height: c. 450 cm
Medium: sandstone; clock mechanisms
Location: By the side of the main Bawtry Road (A 631) near Green Lane and The Grove.
AtoZReference: p.81 5F
Postcode:
Street: Green Lane and The Grove
TownOrVillage: Wickersley
AreaInTown:
MetropolitanBorough: Rotherham
Photographer: Dave Ball
ImageCopyright: Sheffield Hallam University
AccessionNumber: r044a
Description: A clock tower with four faces. The four round clock faces are housed in a square block of sandstone. The visible sandstone surfaces about the clock faces are carved with oak leaves. This is mounted on an octagonal column resting on a square plinth. The whole is placed on three steps.
Shields are carved on three sides of the plinth, a metal shield-shaped plaque on the last.

Inscriptions: A metal shield affixed to the plinth states:
" THIS CLOCK WAS PRESENTED / TO THE PEOPLE / OF WICKERSLEY / BY THE / WICKERSLEY AGRICULTURAL / SHOW SOCIETY / AND WICKERSLEY / PARISH COUNCIL / 1995 "

Commission: Wickersley Agricultural Show Society and Wickersley Parish Council.





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