A PINE THIRTY-HOUR HOODED WALL CLOCKJOHN TAYLOR, EARLY 18th CENTURY AND LATERThe four finned pillar countwheel bell striking single-handed movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 10 inch square bras dial with ringed calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with bold fleur-de-lys half hour markers and signed John Taylor, Fecit to lower margin, with dine scroll-pierced brass hand and mask-centred scroll cast spandrels to angles, now in a case with ogee cornice and plain frieze over glazed hinged dial aperture applied with three-quarter columns to angles and the sides with conforming quarter columns set at the rear, set on a bracket with cavetto throat moulding over shaped side supports applied to a backboard cut with an arch to the lower edge, (case adapted from a longcase clock case).88cm (34.5ins) high, 46cm (18ins) wide, 27cm (10.5ins) deep.The movement of the current lot exhibits features typical of Northern clockmaking (such as 'cartwheel' cut-outs to the dial plate casting) hence was most likely made by John Taylor of Dukinfield, Cheshire, who is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as married in 1709 and dying in 1744.