King's College Gatehouse Clock - King's Parade, Cambridge, UK
N 52° 12.260 E 000° 07.038
31U E 303024 N 5787682
This beautiful clock is located above the gatehouse to King's College on the west side of King's Parade in Cambridge.
Waymark Code: WMQT3R
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/26/2016
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The clock face is carved in stone and is an integral part of the gatehouse building. There are scalloped recesses for the hour numbers that appear to be fixed to the stone face and not carved from it. They are coloured gold. The clock does not have aby minute marks. The hands are a simple design and, unusually, are the same length. The hour hand has a fleur-de-lys end to differentiate it from the minute hand.
The Victorian Web website tells us about the gatehouse:
Gatehouse, King's College Cambridge by William Wilkins. 1824-28."Wilkins had here designed with gusto," writes Nikolaus Pevsner. "The scale is right, the heights are right, the execution is substantial — not mean, like so much neo-Gothic work — and the detail is by no means dull." Pevsner clearly likes both the gatehouse with its "bulbous cupola" and the array of pinnacles, and the screen wall with its effect of transparency and its "seven-light Perp windows, a delightful effect, utterly ungothic in character". As for Pevsner's "utterly ungothic," note that Tim Rawle describes the screen and gatehouse together as neo-Gothic or Tudor-Gothic. Perhaps more people would agree with Rawle.