Church Clock - St James the Great - Gretton, Northamptonshire
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N 52° 32.409 W 000° 40.602
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Church clock on the bell tower of St James the Great church, Gretton.
Waymark Code: WM11KWE
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/09/2019
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Church clock on the bell tower of St James the Great church, Gretton. It has a blue 'ring face' with empty central portion, and gilded roman numerals and hands.
"GRETTON, a corruption of Great-town, is a parish end village on the river Welland, which here separates this county from Rutland, with a station on the Kettering and Nottingham section of the Midland railway, 12 miles north from Kettering, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Corby, petty sessional division of Kettering, union and county court district of Uppingham, rural deanery of Weldon (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and a lofty western tower containing 5 bells and a clock bell in an open turret on the tower; a new clock was given by Mrs. Gibbon, of Gretton House, in 1897."
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