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The
famous Wells clock was probably in place by 1390. Bishop
Ralph Erghum, who had previously been Bishop of Salisbury
and had installed a clock there in 1386, seems to have
brought his clockmaker with him to Wells. The Wells
clock is unique because it still has its original medieval
face, depicting a pre Copernican universe with the earth
at its centre. When the clock strikes every quarter,
jousting knights rush round above the clock and the
Quarter Jack bangs the quarter hours with his heels.
An outside clock opposite Vicars' Hall, placed there
just over seventy years after is connected with the
inside mechanism. |
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