Spandrels are a rococo form often seen in Midlands and Northern clocks after 1760. The seconds indication is engraved on the dial plate. The maker's name and city are engraved just below the dial's center, and the square date aperture is at the bottom center. The blued steel minute and hour hands appear to be original and the seconds hand is a correct replacement. Sandiford's brass and steel movement is eight days duration, four pillars, with hourly striking on an inside countwheel.
Escapement is anchor recoil.
Weights are cast iron and the pendulum uses a brass faced lead bob. All the steel screws are of a unique shape, the iron work in the strike train is nicely sculpted, and the wheelwork is carefully crossed out and finished with uniquely shaped collets and nice turned decoration on each wheel. There is no apparent replacement. It is worth noting that clockmakers in smaller towns often signed a clock with the name of the town where the clock was to be sold, sometimes from a market. Loomes shows Sandiford as born in 1725, married in 1762, and deceased in 1775.