g8 ALL SAINTS' CLOCK AND CHIMES. 



June 12. 1704. 



'' It is also ordered that Henry Goulding shall pay John Ragg 

 "sexton fforty shillings for six years sallary oweing last Easter for 

 "finding oile and wire for the Chimes and other necessarys." 



1735- 



"It is Ordered that Mr. Thomas Wragg in consideration of a pro- 

 " posal which he now makes to give directions for Repairing and 

 "setting in order the Chimes, shall receive the sum of five guineas for 

 "his trouble when the same is compleated ; and the Church Wardens 

 " do Imploy proper workmen to perform the same." 

 1743. May 2. 



"It is Order'd that the Church Wardens shall employ Mr. White- 

 " house Mr. Thomas Sheppard Mr. John Mannings and Mr. Charles 

 " Finney to view the work done at the Chimes by Wm. Holden and 

 " Wm. Moore, and give the vallue of it, and that the Church Wardens 

 " do pay them for their trouble." 

 1743. July 26. 



"It is ordered that Mr. Storer and Mr. Melland our late Church 

 " Wardens do pay Mr. Holden and Mr. Moore their Bills for Work 

 "done at the Chimes and for other Work done for the Parish." 



The existing chimes are traditionally asserted to have been 

 made by Whitehurst, at the same time as the clock, but in the 

 absence of any corroborative evidence in the Parish books, the 

 question must be an open one. It has been suggested that 

 Whitehurst presented the Parish with both clock and chimes, and 

 hence the silence of the records — though one would have 

 expected to find even then a vote of thanks — but at the time 

 under notice (1745) his business could not have been a 

 sufficiently prosperous one to have enabled him to have 

 afforded so handsome a gift. 



The machinery resembles, in principle, a monster musical 

 box. At the hours of 12, 4, 6, and 9, day and night, the 

 clock releases a catch, which sets a heavy leaden weight of 13 

 cwt. in motion ; this in turn drives a huge wooden cylinder 4 

 feet in diameter, the circumference of which is set with pro- 

 jecting pins. In front of the barrel is a row of twenty pivoted 

 levers, two for each bell. As the machine revolves, one end 

 of a lever is raised by a pin on the barrel, while the depres- 

 sion of the other extremity pulls a wire which lifts a hammer, 



