St Patrick's Church Clock - Patrington, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 40.986 W 000° 00.594
30U E 697458 N 5952418
The square tower on this church has a clock face on three sides of the tower.
Waymark Code: WM15A38
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/19/2021
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"St Patrick's Church, Patrington is an Anglican parish church located in Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.
The church, an extensive edifice, situated in the centre of the village, is the handsomest in Holderness. It is dedicated to St Patrick, and is valued in the Liber Regis at £22 (around £7,700,000 in today's money). Patron, the master and fellows of Clare hall, Cambridge.
The manor of Patrington was held from 1033 to 1545 by the Archbishops of York, who were granted a charter for a market in 1223. It was a wealthy manor, including a minor port on the Humber and remaining the market town for South Holderness until the later 19th century. It was this wealth that funded the complete rebuilding of the parish church in a relatively short time, giving it a unity and quality much admired by architectural historians and church visitors such as Nikolaus Pevsner and Simon Jenkins. The church is often referred to as ‘The Queen of Holderness’. It is cruciform, 150 feet in length, and consists of a four-bay aisled nave, two-bay aisled transepts, a four-bay aisle-less chancel, and a crossing tower with a spire reaching 175 feet (53 m) high."
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The Clock
The clock faces are not solid, but consist of three metal rings with numerals between the inner rings.
The hours are marked in Roman numerals with the individual minutes marked as holes between the two narrow outer rings. As is the case with many old clocks the number four is marked as IIII rather than IV as would be used today.
The numerals, minute markings and clock hands were all painted gold originally, but most of the gold has flaked off and they are now mainly black
The hands are arranged so that their central point is connected through the tower walls.