All Saints Church Clock - Mill Street, Maidstone, UK
N 51° 16.231 E 000° 31.283
31U E 327101 N 5682826
All Saints Church, at the junction of Mill Street and The Horseway in Maidstone, has a clock in its tower with faces on the east and west side of the tower.
Waymark Code: WMR74R
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/20/2016
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The clock faces are identical so only one is described here. The face is circular and is painted blue with the hour and minute marks painted directly on to it. The hour marks are Roman numerals with, unusually, "IV" used instead of "IIII" for the four. The hands are a basic design without tails.
All Saints website tells us about the clock and includes some photos of the mechanism:
The clock was made by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon in 1899,
Striking bells 1,2,3, and 6 every quarter, and striking the hours on the tenor bell.
The Clock was overhauled by the same firm in 2007 including repainting the dials.
The weights are now automatically wound by electric motors.
In earlier times the drive was taken through the opening in the wall behind the mechanism. In those days there was also a Carillon – probably disconnected at this change of drive layout. It is said that the Carillon mechanism was removed to Maidstone Museum – where sadly it seems to have vanished…. A great loss to Maidstone!