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Latitude: 53.6896 / 53°41'22"N
Longitude: -2.488 / 2°29'16"W
OS Eastings: 367870
OS Northings: 421576
OS Grid: SD678215
Mapcode National: GBR CT2S.43
Mapcode Global: WH977.RJF9
Plus Code: 9C5VMGQ6+VQ
Entry Name: Darwen Jubilee Tower
Listing Date: 17 April 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072431
English Heritage Legacy ID: 184672
Also known as: Darwen Tower
ID on this website: 101072431
Location: Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, BB3
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Civil Parish: Darwen
Built-Up Area: Darwen
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Darwen St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
SD 62 SE DARWEN
SD 678 215
4/1 Darwen Jubilee Tower
17-4-1972
- II
Observation tower, 1897. Rock-faced sandstone. Late medieval style:
octagonal tower 86ft. high, incorporating a spiral staircase to
observation decks and surrounded at the base by a buttressed open
arcade carrying a low-level deck. Base has stone shield over each arch,
a band above these, and a ramped parapet to the deck. Tower has
Tudor-arched doorway to deck on west side, lancet stairlights, bracketed
cornice, embattled parapet with cross-shaped arrowslits at the angles,
and is surmounted by a lantern with domed cap and weathervane. Tower
was built when, after a protracted legal dispute with the lord of the manor
and the owner of shooting rights, Darwen Moor became public property.
Listing NGR: SD6787021576
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