The 17th Century clock of St Peters Church, Hanwell, Oxfordshire
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Uploaded by irkibby on Apr 10, 2011
THE CLOCK
Under the tower right next to the ringers in a window recess is the clock. It should normally be upstairs in the room below the bells but situating it on the ground floor makes access for winding easier, which needs to be done every other day. The clock was given to the church by Sir Anthony Cope of the nearby castle in 1671 and a great rarity in that it still has a crownwheel and pendulum (with a huge arc) instead of the later recoil escapement.
If you watch the rope of the going side closely, you can see it slowly moving as the clock ticks.
The clock has been restored a few times, the last time was in 1991. There are a fair few parts that are not original. Still, it is a great joy to discover this clock ticking away right next to the ringers so one can perve on it whilst ringing. It is without dial, with a linkage to a hammer on the tenor bell upstairs.
It bears a plate with the inscription "Sir Anthony Cope, his gift. George Harris, Fritwell. January 1671."
UP THE TOWER
1 2008 Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd
2-6 1789 John Briant of Hertford
The tenor weighs 7-0-8 (359kg) and is in A.
The ring of five were removed, retuned and rehung in a new frame with a new treble by Whites of Appleton in 2008. The second has an inscription which reads "Unfeigned praise to heavens almighty King/ For Health restored to George The Third we sing" which I am fairly sure refers to his madness. I think they are a superb six.
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@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!
irkibby 10 months ago
@irkibby Yup it's a crown wheel / verge escapement (the earliest type right after the foliot).
sooth15 10 months ago
@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.
irkibby 10 months ago
Awesome~
sooth15 10 months ago