Show OLDEST CLOCK IN ENGLAND treated in 1320 in one of the towers of peterborough Peter borough cathedral peterborough Peter borough cathedral has the old et ext working clock in england it was erected about 1320 20 and Is probably the ea work of a monastic clockmaker it Is the only one now known that Is wound up over an old wooden wheel this wheel is about 12 feet in cir and the galvanized cable about feet in length supports a leaden weight of 3 cwt cat which has to be wound up daily the clock ia Is said to be of much more imore primitive construction than that made by henry de nick for charle charles V of france in 1370 the clock chamber is in the northwest tower come some feet high where the sunlight has not penetrated for hund hundreds rods of years and ard the winding is done by the light of a candle tho the gong is the great tenor bell of the cathedral which weighs 32 cwt cat and it Is struck hourly by an 80 pound hammer the going and tha striking parts of the clock are some yards apart communication being by a lender slender wire the clock has no dial the time is shown on tho the main wheel of the escapement which goes round once I 1 li i two hours |