St James' Palace Clock - Cleveland Row, London, UK - Town Clocks on Waymarking.com

The clock face, that is diamond shaped, is fixed into the brickwork of the tower that faces Cleveland Row. A gold coloured ring touches the four straight edges of the diamond leaving four corners that are used for enhancing the look of the clock. Each corner has a gold coloured outline and black background. The top corner has a crown, the left has "IIII/W/IV" on three lines. the right corner has the letter "R" and the bottom corner the year "1832". The mentioned details are all gold coloured.

Within the gold ring, mentioned above, are two additional rings that are placed on a white background that may be translucent allowing it to be backlit at night. The outer ring and middle ring have the black minute marks between them. The inner ring and middle ring have the hour marks between them. They are also coloured black and are Roman numerals of the type used for a clock face. Within the inner circle is a geometric design, also black, that consists of 6 elongated diamondswith the longest planes being from the clokc's centre towards the even hour marks. The hands, that are without tails, are simple in design and balck in colour with a fine, gold line along their centre lines.

The British History website tells us about the clock:

Henry's gatehouse and turrets, built of red brick, face St. James's Street, and with the Chapel Royal, which adjoins them on the west side, cover the site of the ancient hospital, which, to judge from the many remains of stone mullions, labels, and other masonry found in 1838, on taking down some parts of the Chapel Royal, was of the Norman period. The lofty brick gatehouse bears upon its roof the bell of the great clock, dated A.D. 1731, and inscribed with the name of Clay, clockmaker to George II. The clock originally had but one hand. When the gatehouse was repaired, in 1831, the clock was removed, and was not put up again on account of the roof being reported unsafe to carry the weight. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood then memorialised the king (William IV. for the replacement of the time-keeper, when his Majesty, having ascertained its weight, "shrewdly inquired how, if the palace roof was not strong enough to carry the clock, it was safe for the number of persons occasionally seen upon it to witness processions, &c." The clock was forthwith replaced, and a minute-hand was added, with new dials; the original dial was of wainscot, "in a great number of very small pieces, curiously dovetailed together."