The 17th Century clock of St Peters Church, Hanwell, Oxfordshire

[sooth15]

Awesome~

[irkibby]

@sooth15 It is. I'd never seen this escapement in action before. The other bellringers were amused that I spent so much time looking at the clock.

[sooth15]

@irkibby Yup it's a crown wheel / verge escapement (the earliest type right after the foliot).

[irkibby]

@sooth15 Indeed. I'd not seen it outside of a book. And this one had not been clumsily converted to a different escapement by a later repairer and then put back to being a crownwheel and verge as happened so often... it has always been like this!