Clock
Thomas Page
Category
Horology
Date
1726 - 1774
Materials
Place of origin
Norwich
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1399360
Summary
Turret clock within cupola. Thomas Page. Brass setting dial engraved 'Thomas Page of Norwich'. Wrought-iron birdcage frame, front and back plates spaced by square iron bars with square nuts. 2 trains side by side, with the setting dial on the left, with brass gears, axles of iron, running on brass brushings. Recoil escapement. Pendulum length 6 feet. Pendulum swings within frame. Count wheel outside frame. Winding drum within frame. Maintaining power provided. 2 dials, one hand. Source David W. Durst 1997.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
Thomas Page, bell founder