{"id":42,"date":"2012-08-08T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T09:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillett.chilli2.co.uk\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2012-08-17T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:32:08","slug":"church-and-tower-clocks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/clocks\/church-and-tower-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Church &#038; Tower Clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Church and Tower Clocks from Gillett &amp; Johnston<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turret-Clock-Plan225px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-286\" title=\"Turret-Clock-Plan225px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turret-Clock-Plan225px.jpg\" alt=\"Church &amp; Tower Clocks by Gillett &amp; Johnston\" width=\"225\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turret-Clock-Plan225px.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turret-Clock-Plan225px-105x300.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turret-Clock-Plan225px-68x195.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The drawing on the left shows the arrangement of dials, bells and the mechanism in the tower.<\/p>\n<h3>BELLS:<\/h3>\n<p>These are preferably arranged above the dials, with a weatherproof floor to the belfry.<\/p>\n<p>The hours are struck on a single bell and the quarters are chimed on two (Ting Tang), four (Westminster Quarter), eight or ten extra bells.<\/p>\n<h3>DIALS:<\/h3>\n<p>These should be in proportion both to the height and width of the tower.\u00a0 A rule of thumb is the dial should be one tenth of the height of the tower.\u00a0 There are many different types of dials including copper, GRP, Skeleton and illuminated.\u00a0 See <a href=\"\/clocks\/dials-hands\/\">Dial \/ Hand section<\/a> for illustrations.<\/p>\n<h3>HANDS:<\/h3>\n<p>Designed to customers&#8217; specification, fabricated in heavy gauge copper, ribbed and stiffened to withstand high wind pressures and carefully counterbalanced.<\/p>\n<h3>MOVEMENT:<\/h3>\n<p>These can be mechanical. mains driven or quartz controlled with radio signal. See Equipment section for further information.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church and Tower Clocks from Gillett &amp; Johnston The drawing on the left shows the arrangement of dials, bells and the mechanism in the tower. BELLS: These are preferably arranged above the dials, with a weatherproof floor to the belfry. The hours are struck on a single bell and the quarters are chimed on two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}