The Tolsey Clock, Wotton-under-Edge town centre

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A clock existed here, at the top of the high street in Wotton, in the 17th century. Various repairs were carried out on the clock over the years. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the driving mechanism of the clock was in the loft of the Tolsey building. A man was employed regularly to wind it up and look after it. A plaque on the clock lists some of the people who wound the clock up manually. Queen Victoria had come to the throne in 1837 and to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 the present clock, which juts out into the high street, was installed, replacing the octagonal shaped one. More recently, the original portraits of Queen Victoria were replaced with new ones painted by Wotton-under-Edge artist Robert Collins, who worked from an 1897 Diamond Jubilee picture of Queen Victoria which decorated a mug.

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Size: 3407px × 5110px
Location: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Turner / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: attraction, centre, clock, cotswold, cotswolds, edge, furniture, gloucestershire, high, landmark, market, street, tolsey, town, victorian, victoriana, wotton, wotton--edge