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Richard Roe (clockmaker)
English clockmaker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Roe, also Rowe, (c.1640 – 1718) of Epperstone was one of the earliest clockmakers in Nottinghamshire.[1]


Life
He married on 12 August 1660 in Holy Trinity Church, Lambley to Mary. He became churchwarden at Holy Cross Church, Epperstone in 1668 but was a Quaker.
He produced several clocks, known as door frame clocks, for churches in Nottinghamshire.[2]
He is also known to have produced some lantern clocks.[3]
He was buried at Clipston, Nottinghamshire on 25 August 1718.
Works
Door frame clocks
- St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Shelford 1680[4] (Replaced in 1880. Whereabouts unknown.)
- St Margaret's Church, Owthorpe 1680[4]
- Church of St. John of Beverley, Whatton 1683 (Probably removed in 1910. Whereabouts unknown.)
- St Mary's Church, East Leake 1683 (not confirmed as Richard Roe, but similar in style)
- Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall 1685
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree 1686[4] (now at the British Horological Institute, Upton Hall) removed from Plumtree in 1889.[5]
- Holy Cross Church, Epperstone 1688 (Removed in 1854. Whereabouts unknown.)
- St. Giles' Church, Cropwell Bishop 1694 (now in Nottingham Industrial Museum).
- St Swithin’s Church, Wellow about 1699[4]
- St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham 1699[4] (Removed in 1830. Whereabouts unknown.)
- St Michael's Church, Linby, 1700[6]
- St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1707[4] (removed in 1807, now in St Mary's Church, Staunton in the Vale).
- Priory Church of St Peter, Thurgarton date unknown. Removed in 1879.[7]
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