94 ALL SAINTS' CLOCK AND CHIMES. 



And at a meeting on February 19, 1733 it was 



" Order'd that George Ashmore shall be paid the sum of Eight Pounds 

 "and Eight Shillings, by the present Church Wardens, for the new Clock, 

 "which he lately put up in All Saints Steeple, which is hereby approved 

 "by the Parish, and also after the said George Ashmore hath made some 

 "Little Amendment in the Quarter Clock, and made an Alteration in the 

 " Clock according to Mr. Parkers Directions, shall be consider'd farther 

 "as the Parish shall think Reasonable." 



From these two minutes we gather two facts, first, that one 

 George Ashmore was engaged by the Churchwardens to put up a 

 new clock, which he did at a cost of eight guineas, and secondly, 

 that the old clock did not occupy the position of its successors. 



It has been previously pointed out in the paper on the bells * 

 that the ringing loft was once under the tower, on a level 

 with the sill of the west window, and it would appear that 

 the " Clockhouse " stood on this loft,t with the " Dyall to the 

 Street," over the west door, at the base of the window, the 

 " dial in y e Church," being on the eastern side of it. With the 

 old clock, the clockhouse was removed, and a new one erected 

 on the floor higher up in the tower, where the present clock 

 is, to contain Ashmore's. The space in the gallery^ which 

 had been' occupied, was then seated. 



In spite of its approval by the Parish, the new clock does 

 not appear to have been a good one, having been superseded 

 or greatly altered by Whitehurst, in 1745. Here again, the 

 Parish books do not yield a morsel of information, a circum- 

 stance which is most unaccountable, and it is the present clock 

 which tells its own tale— "J. WHITEHURST DERBY 1745." 

 being engraved on the stop wheel. 



This clock No. 3 — which is the one now in the tower — is a 

 four-day one, with a three-wheel train, and the dead-beat pin- 

 wheel escapement which was invented by Whitehurst. The 

 pendulum is about 1 5 feet long, and beats once every two 

 seconds. The barrels on which the weight-ropes are wound are 



* Journal, vol. i., p. 64, 



f This loft was apparently only partially removed in 1665-6. 



X The gallery here mentioned is not now in existence. 



