Clocks of the Church of St. James the Greater / Hodiny kostela Sv. Jakuba Staršího - Príbram (Central Bohemia)
N 49° 41.318 E 014° 00.565
33U E 428550 N 5504483
Depicted four classical clocks, with black dials, gilded Roman numerals and hands, are located on the belfry of Church of St. James the Greater (kostel Sv. Jakuba Staršího) in Príbram.
Waymark Code: WMVEZR
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/10/2017
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Depicted four classical clocks, with black dials, gilded Roman numerals and hands, are located on the belfry of Church of St. James the Greater (kostel Sv. Jakuba Staršího) in Príbram.
The clock machine inside the belfry was constructed probably after April 22, 1761, when was tower heavily damaged by lighting. Repaired in 1842 by master Balke and again during the principal church's reconstruction and re-Gothisation in 1869 (date on new dials). Interesting is reverse size of hands, used from 1842.
Church of St. James, parish church of Pribram Roman Catholic parish, is with its early-Gothic core built probably before 1213 the oldest existing historic and architectural monument in the town. It is a single nave rectangular structure with polygonal chancel, external buttresses and massive prismatic belltower (8.5×7.6 m, 34 m high). The core of the church was built probably before 1213, the first written record is from June 6, 1298. Church was rebuilt, reshaped and reconstructed many times during its 800 years long history (1560 - Renaissance rebuilding and extending; 1795 - Baroque reconstruction; 1869 - general neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic rebuilding; 1923 and 1971 - minor renovations; 1998 - general renovation).