Report on THE APOSTLE CLOCK at THE HORNIMAN MUSEUM, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, Lewisham
Author(s): Emily Cole
Historical information has been requested on the Apostle Clock, situated at the north end of the north halt gallery in the grade 11* listed Horniman Museum, London Road, SE23. The Museum is currently being extended and remodelled, with the aid of a grant of £10 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It will feature new public spaces —galleries, a café and a shop - and the entrance will be re-orientated, so that visitors to the 'new' Museum will enter the building from the Horniman Gardens. This work is set to be complete for 2001-2. As part of the rearrangement of the Museum, Listed Building Consent has been sought for the re-location of the Apostle Clock. It is proposed that the clock be moved from its present position, and exhibited in the Emslie Horniman Gallery, at the start of a case which will focus on the Horniman Family. English Heritage has objected to this relocation and, after a curatorial response was submitted by the Horniman Museum's Nicky Levell, Curator (Collections History), further historical information has been sought. This report pays particular attention to the original plans drawn by Charles Harrison Townsend, to the origins of the Apostle Clock and its introduction to the Museum, and the clock's relationship to its space.
- Report Number:
- 140/2001
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 26
