Royal Clock

Performance

Music

Scenes

• King Cnut commanding the tide to halt.
• King Harold dying on the field at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
• King John signing the Magna Carta in 1215. Also present in the scene is Stephen Cardinal Langton.
• Henry VIII and his six wives.
• Queen Elizabeth I knighting Sir Francis Drake aboard the Golden Hind in 1588.
• The execution of King Charles I in 1649.
• Atop the clock there are Four Heralds who appear to announce the start of the performance
• Each of the mechanised 3D scenes in the clock was created Marcus Replicas, Leicestershire, a firm which specialised in making lifelike figures and three dimensional scenes from history. Dennis Morton created the design for each scene, after which both he and Elizabeth , spent over three years creating the figures which would bring them to life. Each figure was sculpted in clay, before being cast in resin and then hand painted in acrylics and metallic paints by Marcus Replicas' own team of painters. Once complete, the figures were assembled into their respective historical tableaux and Elizabeth painted a background scene for each one, intended to evoke a sense of the relevant period. Each completed scene was then sent to Thwaites and Reed to be mechanised and assembled into the clock itself.