2848 x 4288 px | 24,1 x 36,3 cm | 9,5 x 14,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
20. März 2016
Ort:
Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset BA5 2UE UK
Weitere Informationen:
The clock in this image is on the outside wall of Wells Cathedral in the west of England. The clock dates from medieval times and dates from about 1460 some 70 years after the more spectacular clock inside the building. The same mechanism drives both clocks and the original claims to be second oldest mechanism in the world still in use. The original is now in the Science Museum in London. The keeper if the Wells clock retired in 2010 and the need to wind the clock three times a week ceased as the mechanism was then replaced by an electric motor! It took nearly an hour to wind the old mechanism by hand. Church and cathedral clocks were vital to the lives of townsfolk. Few had any other means of telling the time and the life of the town or city would be driven by the time rung out by these clocks.
