Encased Clock

 

We called in to Nero's Coffee Shop in Bath yesterday afternoon.  This shop has an old frontage at the corner of High Street and Northumberland Passage.  

Some renovations have been done and a long case clock has appeared which I don't remember seeing before, even in the days - some years ago now - when I visited the shop with Dad when it was J.W. Crook & Sons, Gents Outfitters.

 

The clock is in an oak case and was made by T Condliff of  Liverpool, according to the name on the face, perhaps in the late 19th Century. 

The strangest thing (apart from the awful bit of silver tape being used to keep the front of the case shut) is that the clock appears to be firmly wedged in its alcove at top and bottom - the clock extends above and behind the stone or concrete lintel at the top, as if at some point it had been bricked up and forgotten or encased in a cupboard.

Certainly a talking point over coffee..