A late Victorian mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement having a dead-beat escapement and striking the hours on a gong, the twelve-inch break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with engraved black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings and outer Arabic five-minute markings, the matted centre having a subsidiary seconds dial, the arch having a 'strike/silent' dial, with cast-brass c-scroll spandrels to the four corners and dolphin spandrels to the arch and decorative blued steel hands, the mahogany case having a swan-neck pediment with a brass ball-and-spire finial to the centre, canted corners to the hood and trunk, a shaped door and matching raised panel to the base, all standing on bracket feet, height 226cms (inc finial).