The Royal Mews Clock - Buckingham Palace Road, London, UK
N 51° 29.911 W 000° 08.626
30U E 698246 N 5709132
This clock sits over the archway leading from the Buckingham Palace Road entrance to the inner quadrangle of the mews.
Waymark Code: WMN6DE
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/04/2015
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The co-ordinates given are for a location where the clock can be seen from Buckingham Palace Road as admittance to the news is restricted.
The clock is housed in a stone clock tower over the entrance arch. The clock face is recessed into the stonework and has a white, translucent background enabling it to be back-lit at night. The minute and hour markers are pressed from a single sheet of metal with three concentric rings holding the parts together. The outer pair of rings hold the minute marks and the inner pair the hour marks that are Roman numerals. Withing the inner ring is a pattern of six diamond shapes that are aligned from the clock's centre to the even hours. There are a pair of simple hands without tails. All the marks, hands and decoration are coloured gold and it is possible that gold leaf has been used as some appears to have disappeared from the lower part of the clock face.
The Royal Mews is a Grade I listed building with the clock being mentioned in the listing at the English Heritage website that tells us:
Stables and coachhouses. 1824-5. Stucco and brick. Low pitched slate roof to parapet. 2 storeys. Quadrangle. Stone gateways to all sides flanked by coupled Doric columns, carrying entablature and crowned by clock tower to south gate. Blind walls to Buckingham Palace Road. Channelled rustication; segmental headed, architraved windows to upper storey. Courtyard with thermal windows to upper part of ground floor, and access balcony to grooms' accommodation. Square headed windows to upper storey. Interiors with iron columns, those to north range of elaborate design forming 3 aisles with vaulting over.