Handmade Mechanical Gothic Clock Tower / Clockwork Clock / Pendulum Mantle Clock / Shelf Clock / Table clock

Rather than copying an existing church tower, we decided to create an imaginary gothic clock tower this time, either a country church tower, or the clocktower to a town hall. I quite like church towers and medieval buildings that were cobbled together over a long time, reacting to previous builds and their landscape. So this one is a broad, asymmetric, stocky tower, with off-centre spire. This would be the sort of building where an original well-proportioned tower had a spire added in a later generation, but the problems of suspect foundations meant it had to be added to one side, and a mass of mis-matching buttresses thrown up to support the weight.

In form this takes is inspiration from Miles’ home parish of St Mary’s in Bridgwater (later spire on older stocky tower), St Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen (with its stocky fore-towers and delightfully dumpy spires), then a late medieval door and window, a bit like those of the Somerset Towers at Evercreech or Kingston St Mary, and finally some of the wonderfully asymmetrical gothic buildings of Germany. So something of a blend of very different medieval forms.

This is our first architectural clock to have a mechanical movement, an 8-day time only Hermle 771-000 with a 18cm pendulum. The pendulum bob can be seen swinging behind the big window. This has an audible but not overpowering tick and is working very well. Don't worry if you've never used a mechanical clock before - it's easy(!), and we will send you directions of use and care instructions with the clock. We are also available via email with any questions that you might have. `

Size:
-42cm tall
-18cm wide
- 12.5cm deep.

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