AN INTERESTING WILLIAM III/QUEEN ANNE OAK CASED QUARTER CHINING EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKSAMUEL TAYLOR, CIRCA 1700The four finned pillar triple train movement with plates measuring 7.75 by 5 inches and anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the quarter train with internal countwheel to the hammer pin-wheel arbor cut for sounding the quarters on a graduated nest of three bells and with pin positioned at the end the last quarter to release the internal rack hour striking mechanism sounding on a further larger bell, the 12 inch square brass dial with ringed winding holes, scroll-border engraved calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds dial incorporating silvered plate engraved Sam: Dodge beneath to the matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed Samuel Taylor to lower margin, with fine scroll-pierced steel hands and twin cherub and crown cast spandrels to angles within wheatear engraved border, in a case with architectural cornice and scroll-pierced frieze to lintel over hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by fixed three-quarter columns to angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat moulding above 32 inch rectangular door centred with a lenticle and with half round edge mouldings, on plinth base with ogee upper mouldings and moulded skirt.198cm (78ins) high, 50cm (19.75ins) high, 25.5cm (10ins) deep at the cornice.A clockmaker with the name Samuel Taylor is recorded in Davies, Edmund Greater Manchester CLOCKS & WATCHMAKERS as working in Middleton, Lancashire up until his death in 1743. Details such as the 'cartwheel' pierced casting to the dial plate would confirm the clock's North Country origins, with sophisticated refinements such as internal rack striking perhaps suggesting the clockmaker was perhaps London trained. The name 'Sam: Dodge' engraved jt below the subsidiary seconds dial is probably that of the original owner.