Windlass
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paint, Wood
Measurements
770 mm (H)3350 mm (W)750 mm (D)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332171
Summary
Windlass or hoist wheel from the Snowshill Arms public house (CPW, Notebook SNO.Misc.974, page 67) used for lifting and lowering grain into the Malthouse on a pulley (with two pulley blocks). Charles Wade added the painted and pillared section. The windlass is depicted in several of Charles Wade's glass plate negatives (1329732. 1329733. 1329734) In Haphazard Notes Volume 1 (SNO.MISC.952.1) on pages 118-119 Charles Wade writes about Hoist Wheels and refers to this example. 'Set up aloft, the load being lifted by rope attached to the WINDLAS axle beam, the pulling rope about the channelled rim of a large wheel fixed to this axle beam. So the larger this wheel is and the smaller the diameter of its axle, the less the power required to raise load. Two examples at Snowshill Manor. One diameter of 2’6”, the other of 6’6” with this larger one a pull of 3 cwt 37 ½ lbs. would lift a TON'.
Provenance
Originally from Snowshill Arms Malthouse. Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.