The base is solid concrete, square by thick, with foundations that extend below ground to ensure stability. Joyce of Whitchurch built the clock, the face of which is across, the largest bell weighs with all the bells together weighing ; the minute hand is long, the hour hand is across, the pendulum is long. The clock hands are made out of sheet copper. There are ten floors served by an electrical lift in the SW corner. The tower was built from the inside, without scaffolding, up to the level of the balcony. It is built of Red Accrington brick with Darley Dale dressings and tapers from square to below the balcony. Owing to its having been built from the inside it was not pointed and had to be pointed in 1914 and was subsequently repointed in 1957 and 1984–85. Its weight, solid brick corners linked by four courses of brick resists the overturning wind forces.