The second floor room houses the Parish Clock-a double three legged gravity escapment installed by Gillet & Johnston (Still in existence) in 1884. The clock cost £208 10s and was guaranteed to run within a limit of plus or minus two seconds a week.

It still runs within these limits! It was restored in 1979 by Soho Clockmaker Michael McCoy to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. The clock is wound three times a week by volunteers and strikes the hours from 7am till 11pm.

The original clock bell was cast by Mears and Stainbank of Whitechapel(Which still exists) in 1691 and weighing about one ton was rehung in the new tower. This is the bell on which the Parish clock strikes to this day.

St Anne’s Church was consecrated by Henry Compton, Bishop of London, on 21 March 1686. The architects were either Sir Christopher Wren or Mr William Talman or possibly both. Building began in 1677 on this plot in Soho Fields, of a church of a basilican plan about eighty feet long and sixty four feet wide.The first important alteration to the church was made in 1801–3, when the steeple was replaced by the one we can see at present. The architect was S. P. Cockerel

The Church was destroyed by a bomb in September 1940, the tower however survived.The tower was derelict after the bombing though it was used as a chapel for a while in the 1950s.

In 1979 it was partly restored by the Soho Society and in 1991 as part of the redevelopment of the whole church site the tower was completely renovated at a cost of £150,000. The tower is a Grade II listed building.

The boundaries are Oxford Street to the North, Chinatown and Leicester Square to the South, Regent Street to the West and Charing Cross Road to the East.