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Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons

J. G. Binney and Ernest E. Fetch (b.c.1867)

Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear

Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons
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A twice life-size female figure situated at each corner of the tower between buttressed ionic columns. Only two are positively identifiable: north-east corner, Autumn (with a sheaf of corn); south-west corner, Winter (who pulls her cloak round her). The other two are in similar half-clad poses. Beneath each figure at each corner of the tower's main cornice is a head in the Egyptian style, with wings behind. On top of the tower is a copper weathervane in the pattern of an Elizabethan galleon.

The allegorical figures and relief heads on the tower's cornice are part of the Town Hall's extensive sculptural decoration.
Title

Clock Tower – Allegories of the Four Seasons

Date

1910

Medium

stone

Accession number

NE33_GL_S067

Work type

Clock tower

Owner

South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Custodian

South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

27/02/50

Access

at all times

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Located at

Westoe Road, South Shields

NE33 2RL

Set in the plaza, on the clock tower of the Town Hall.