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Freestanding carved limestone Gothic style clock tower, erected in 1867. Polygonal limestone ashlar roof surmounted by decorative cast-iron finial supported on a four-sided base with profiled brackets below. A series of oculus openings to frieze below with a colonnette to each corner having foliate capitals. A clock face to all four sides is set in a trefoil-arched recessed panel flanked by squat pink marble columns supporting an ornate carved gable to each side with a pair of oculus openings above. A carved stringcourse and foliate cornice runs along all four sides below which the tower has eight sides with four slender colonettes alternating green and pink marble resting on a continuous moulded base. A quatrefoil inscribed panel is flanked by square marble columns and has a crested gable above. All resting on a heavy moulded base. A new limestone-clad square-plan base has been constructed below. West plaque to quatrefoil panel reads: 'Erected by Public Subscription in Appreciation of the Enterprise and Usefulness of Alderman Peter Tait.'
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