There’s a allure and mystique surrounding grandfather clocks in our culture that comes (I think) from the European roots of our civilization.  Big, dignified clocks that tick, tock, and chime loudly on the hour.  Tall, proud figures standing in hallways, parlors, and great rooms both here and on the continent.

Apparently, it was a song written in 1875 by Henry Work Clay entitled “My Grandfather’s Clock Song” that popularized the term – making long case, and tall case clocks known as Grandfather clocks .  Learn something new every day – file that one in your clock trivia mental compartment!

Now these majestic clocks are available not only in traditional designs, but also in modern reinterpretations, curio clocks you can keep your trinkets in, clocks that look like lamposts, and even a “Ridgeway Christian grandfather clock”.  It features a traditional Westminster chime pattern, and a mural of a peaceful meadow.  Perhaps that’s where it received it’s Christian designation from?  Some sort of artistic reference to Psalm 23?  In all honesty, I’m not sure we have room for a large clock in our small home, we’d definitely need to do rearranging to find space for one!  That could be why, in addition to grandfather clock’s, they also offer mantel clocks, cuckoo clocks and wall clocks.