Church Clock - Church of All Saints, Church Road, Tilney All Saints, Norfolk. PE34 4SJ
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greysman
N 52° 44.199 E 000° 19.271
31U E 319149 N 5846341
There is a single clock face on the church tower of this parish church.
Waymark Code: WMY0P3
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/28/2018
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The waterways in fenland carried wool to east-coast ports and on to the continent from the uplands of England leading to great wealth which was shown in the great churches of the area including Tilney All Saints. This late C12th parish church is Grade I listed, the nave and chancel are from this date, the west tower is late C13th and C14th with a spire dated 1428. The nave and chancel aisles were remodelled in the C15th with battlements added 1523-1525. It is built of barnack stone and flint, partly rendered and belongs to a group of fenland churches with very long naves built on land reclaimed from the sea.
The clock face is mounted on the south face of the church tower facing the oldest part of the village.
It's mounted just above the top string course and is a single disc pierced inside the numeral mounting ring with a star shape filled with glass. The hour and minute marks, the Roman numerals and the hands are gold-painted. Either side of the disc at the 5 and 7 positions are scroll-work and at the 12 position is a 'crown', these all also painted gold-colour.
The hours are struck on the tenor bell.
Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Norfolk Buildings, Simon Jenkins 'England's Thousand Best Churches', amended and added to with own on-site observations.