One-handed clock face of the Coningsby parish church, St Michael’s. Lincolnshire. England. UK. Europe
Coningsby is overlooked by the tower of its 15th-century parish church, St Michael's, with its one-handed clock face. One of the few in the country (there is another at St Andrew's in Holt, Norfolk). The face is painted directly onto the wall of the tower and was probably installed in the 17th century. It is 16½ feet (5 metres) in diameter and its hand is nearly 9 feet ( metres) long. The driving weights are large stones and its pendulum swings once every two seconds. The pendulum is not attached to the clock but some distance away, linked by a connecting rod. There are three wheels in the timekeeping mechanism, which needs winding once a day.
Size: 5608px × 3743px
Location: Coningsby parish church, Lincolnshire, UK
Photo credit: © parkerphotography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -handed, angels, architectural, architecture, britain, british, building, built, church, clock, clocks, close, close-, closeup, color, colour, coningsby, detail, east, england, english, exterior, face, gb, great, heritage, historic, historical, horizontal, image, instrument, isles, kingdom, lincolnshire, lincs, lindsey, mechanism, michael, michaels, passage, photo, photograph, photography, pic, picture, st, structure, time, timekeeper, timekeeping, timepiece, tower, uk, united, unusual
