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Old clocks and watches & their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)

Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 46

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licated piece of machinery was,according to William of Worcester, originally in the south transeptof the abbey church ; but it was removed with all its appendages fromthence to Wells Cathedral at the time of the dissolution of themonastry in the reign of Henry VIII., where, in an old chapel in… … Fig. 23.—Dial of Glastonbury Clock. angels, holding in their hands each the head of a man. The outerband is painted blue, with gilt stars scattered over it, and is dividedinto twenty-four parts, corresponding with the twenty-four hours ofthe day and night, in two divisions of twelve hours eacli.…

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