Newey Clock – De Grey Rooms, York

Some fantastic images of the Pinnacle team restoring the Newey Clock at the De Grey Rooms in York.

Today, you’ll find the clock on the wall above the front door of De Grey House. Moved there in 2011, thanks, in part, to the efforts of the York Clock Group.

The external drum sits neatly on a pair of elaborately scrolled brackets, surmounted by what looks like a medieval jousting tent from the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I. Connected through the wall, the mechanism is inside De Grey House and comprises a complicated and clever, weight-driven machine requiring precisely 145 turns of the winding handle every week.