Coningsby Church & River Bain

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Coningsby Church & River Bain
Coningsby Church & River Bain

Dec 05: Remember the snow, brief though it was?
Notice the clock has only one hand. It is designed that way and does give the time in hours and minutes. This quote from the Lenton Times refers to it:
"Post war austerity had meant that building programmes were kept to bare essentials and this severely limited orders for tower clocks. There was, however, plenty of repair and maintenance work for Cope to do. Many public clocks required overhauling after the long neglect of the war years. One interesting restoration involved the old one-handed clock of Coningsby Church in Lincolnshire, probably the largest one-handed clock in England if not in the world - its dial an amazing 16-foot diameter. (Both the Council House and University clock faces are only a mere 9-foot wide.) The red, white and blue emblem of the Royal Air Force was painted on to the clock's dial. During the war Coningsby church had always stood out in the flat Lincolnshire landscape as a welcome landmark that the crew were almost back home. So to remember the role the church's steeple had played raising pilots' spirits, the R.A.F. paid for the restoration."
(Reference: Copyright Lenton Times)

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