Another submission to the 2020 BSS Sundial Design And Restoration Awards, this time from our Patron Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd.

Name:
The Voss Obelisk
Type:
Pair of declining reclining slate dials with a third information slate
Year:
2019
Materials:
Burlington Slate dial plates with gold-plated bronze gnomons
Size:
Dial plates are approximately 40 cm square
Location:
Cornwall
Design and delineation:
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Dial Plate Cutting:
Ben Jones
Gnomon:
Fabrication by John Huddlestone.
Obelisk:
Portuguese Granite cut in Portugal and supplied by Lantoom Quarry, Cornwall
Hidden metalwork:
John Huddlestone
Reference:
Mark Lennox-Boyd and Ben Jones: ‘The Voss Obelisk, Time for Evermore’, BSS Bulletin 31(iv) 12-16 (December 2019).

BSS Sundial Design And Restoration Awards 2020

There’s still time to enter the competition, so for those who have been creating dials during lockdown now is the time to share! For more information, see details of the competition.

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