A new clock is installed into the tower of St Peter’s to mark the accession to the throne of Queen Victoria. It has been built by the clock manufacturer Thwaites & Read of Clerkenwell in London. Church clocks are not a recent invention; in the 1330s the Abbot of St Alban’s, Richard of Wallingford, designed a famous astronomical clock for the Abbey there, but parish church clocks did not become widespread until the mid-16th century.
