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Desk Based Assessment

Date 1 September 2017

Event ID 1026927

Category Recording

Type Desk Based Assessment

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1026927

The clock tower situated at Custom House Quay, 30m NW of the Custom House, was designed by William Clark and made for Greenock Harbour Trust around 1860. Scotland’s most elaborate harbour light, it has a square in plan cast iron base incorporating a drinking fountain with opposing lion’s head faucets and basins, supporting a Corinthian column, with central rope-moulded band. The column supports a 4-faced clock above which sits an octagonal lantern with crown belfry, ball finial, and weathervane. The light is annotated ‘D.F.’ - Drinking Fountain, on the 2nd edition of the OS 25-inch map (Renfrewshire 1897, Sheet 002.06).

Information from HES Survey and Recording (AMcC) 1 September 2017.

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