Church Clock - St.Mary the Virgin, High Street, Whissonsett, Dereham, Norfolk. NR20 5AP - Town Clocks on Waymarking.com

Witcingkeseta as it was known in the Domesday Book means either the settlement of the Witcing tribe or a place of watery meadows.

The Parish Church, dedicated to St.Mary the Virgin, is Grade II* listed. It is of C14th Medieval date with later additions and heavily restored and repaired in 1873. Built of flint with ashlar dressings it has slate roofs and consists of a west tower, aisleless nave with south porch, and chancel with vestry and organ outshoot to the north.

The early C14th west tower has diagonal buttresses, two-light cusped Y-traceried bell openings and small quatrefoil lights to the second floor. The inserted C15th west window is of two lights and has an embattled transom. There is a C15th crenellated parapet with corner finials, flushwork and blind traceried panels with shields. Six bells hang in the tower hung for conventional English-style ringing.

The clock face on the south face of the tower looks rather crude, it's held away from the stonework on three brackets at the XII, IV and VIII positions. The outer rim, the simple Roman numerals and the (rather more ornate) hands are painted gold-coloured, all on a blue ground. The counterbalance mechanism for the hands is inside the clock room which is immediately below the bell chamber.

Words from British Listed Buildings and Pevsner's Norfolk 2 Buildings with amendments from own on site observations.

Coordinates are for the tower.

Status: Working Display: Mounted Year built: Not listed Web link to additional info: Not listed

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