Today, as work continues on plans to remake Clandon Park after the devastating fire of 2015, the clock has been carefully restored. The clock had not ticked for many years before the fire at Clandon Park. While the clock mechanism was safe inside the visitor centre on the night of the fire, the pendulum was being stored inside the house awaiting further conservation work but was luckily found during the yearlong salvage process.
Clandon Park Curator Sophie Chessum said, ‘Hearing this wonderful old clock begin to tick-tock once more was a very special moment for me. It’s been a part of Clandon’s story for over four hundred years, and like the house itself, it’s a survivor! There are only a handful of these clocks in existence today, and Clandon’s cockle-shell clock feels somehow symbolic of the house’s resilience, and the many changes its been through.’