Whitgift Church: The only church in the country where the clock can strike 13

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The first sentence of George Orwell’s acclaimed dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four reads: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

The only church in the UK to actually read XIII instead of XII is St. Mary Magdalene in the village of Whitgift, East Yorkshire. The church itself dates from the 14th century and is a beautiful Grade I listed building standing beside the River Ouse. Its clock was installed in 1919 to mark the end of World War I, its inscription “In Terra Pax” being Latin for Peace on Earth. As for the intriguing baker’s dozen numbers on its clock face, local people have an amusing if un-Orwellian explanation.

Get a bespoke news round-up, as well as breaking news updates, when you sign up to the Yorkshire Post’s newsletters Afterwards, he climbed back up his ladder to continue working and merrily added an extra numeral. The church has another claim to fame. It was mentioned in World War II radio transmissions by Lord Haw Haw, the British traitor William Joyce who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during World War II.

 

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