Clock — 1770-1830

A rectangular case with side doors (now separate, but originally hinged and glazed) enclosing an iron movement with a bell at the top. With ornamental pierced cresting at the front and the sides, cast in lead, that at the front with a crowned coat of arms, a white swan on a red field, and those at the sides with an unidentified monogram. The dial plate is painted with a Dutch canal scene above and flowers (water lilies?) below. It is flanked by rampant lions cast in gilt lead (one is broken). All parts of the case are painted or gilt. The dial has a Roman chapter ring, and outer Arabic minute ring and brass hands, the hour hand with a brass pointer attached to the central alarm dial. Also rivetted to the case are further cast and gilded lead ornaments consisting of the armorial cresting above the arched wooden painted canopy and a pierced apron ornament attached to the dial plate below. The brackets which attach the clock to the wall are, like the frames to the side doors, painted with roses against an olive green ground. The movement is supported by four balusters. The brass chain and pulleys with four weights (two cylindrical, two conical, one of lead the other of brass) are listed in the original registered description but have not yet been identified or correctly numbered. The registered description has been annotated at a later date as follows 'Lead decoration broken partly repaired in museum when gilding was also partly renewed'.