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A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as churches, university buildings, and town halls. As a public amenity to enable the community to tell the time, it has a large face visible from far away, and often a striking mechanism which rings ...
Domestic clocks and watches were mostly imported or the work of immigrants from the European continent. Because turret clock making involved working in ferrous metal, clockmakers within the City of London tended to be freemen of the Blacksmiths’ Company , though some were members of other livery companies, notably the Clothworkers .
Turret clock of 1875 by John Moore and Sons (Museum of Timekeeping, Upton Hall, Nottinghamshire).John Moore & Sons of Clerkenwell was a London-based clockmaker. For most of its history the firm's factory and main office was at 38-39 Clerkenwell Close, described in the 1850s as being 'situated in the very heart of the London watch and clock trade'.
The company's earliest recorded commission and still in use, was a turret clock for Horseguards Parade made in 1740 but not finished until 1768, and a domestic long-clock about 1770 for the British East India Company. The complexity of the Horseguards clock is the result of many previous years' clockmaking experience, but older work has not ...
During the 1970s, many of the mechanical clocks were changed to use the electric motors made by the Smith parent company. However, J. B. Joyce continued to operate as a separate company, with mainly heritage work being carried out in the factory up to 2012, when a timed-bid auction was held to sell off surplus equipment, tools, and clock parts ...
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The clock is similar to one in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford that came from St Laurence's parish church in Combe, Oxfordshire.In 1938 Donald Harden, then Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum, reported "They are identical in design, workmanship and method of construction, even down to the peculiar and rather puzzling cranking of the arm for carrying the lever that lifted ...
He also made longcase clocks known to be signed “J Woolley”, brass and silvered face with moon dial c.1780’s. He died at his house on Codnor Common on 22 November 1786, [4] a bachelor, and left his fortune to his two nephews. He signed his clocks "Wolley". Therefore this article should list his name as James Wolley or James Woolley.