Since the medieval period, mechanical clocks located in churches across Britain have told the time to local communities, or displayed the phases of the moon & the heavens on an elaborate astrological face. Focusing on some of the most noteworthy church clocks in Britain, & the intriguing stories behind them, this book traces the history of church clocks from the wealthy abbeys & cathedrals of the medieval period, through the gentle developments & refinements that made clocks more accurate & easier to maintain, to the electronic movements of the present day that are steadily making redundant historic clocks that have served for centuries.