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BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.

Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.

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Myrtle Cottage [Old Baptist Chapel], Taunton

Motto (1) reads: ’The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work’. Motto (2) reads : ’Tempus Fugit’. Stated Lat 50:51, Declines 63° 18’E. By 1998 the dial plate was virtually blank. Chapel now part of a farm. Shows 4am to 1pm in half and quarter hours, (no subdivisions between 12 and 1 it seems). Possible 1.30 mark. Painted cream as rest of wall and inset in dark green painted stone? Frame.

 

Image of dial 0038
2000
Image of dial 0038
1998

Myrtle Cottage [Old Baptist Chapel], Churchinford, Taunton, TA3 7QX, Somerset

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S0038 1846 2000 50.90917, -3.12083
N 50° 54' 33", W 03° 07' 15"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
ST213128
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
J Blackmore Pntd Stone & Fe 460 x 560