In its stately home
The clock was bought by the architect John Nash in 1824 for his new country mansion at East Cowes where it stayed for over 130 years. It was probably intended to add to the grandeur of his home rather than to tell the time! It would have been wound once a week and chimed every hour.

This engraving shows the clock-face high up in the square tower to the left of the castle entrance.

From the 1930s, the cost of maintaining house and grounds became too expensive for the owners. Vandalism, theft and use by the War Office all took their toll.

	In 1958 the estate was sold to Arthur Guy, who rescued the decaying clock mechanism from the tower. Eventually the estate was bought by property developers. A road named John Nash Avenue is now a reminder of the man who built the castle.
	The clock-face in the tower of the ruined castle