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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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St Bartholomew’s Church, Stoke Rivers

We hardly need the signature in small letters at the bottom of the dial on the porch to tell us that this is one of Jno Berry’s fine products. It has the typical break-arch shape on a slate rectangle with winged heads in the upper corners. Round the arch is the date, 1770, and an unusually simple sunburst (or an 8-pointed star) round the root of the gnomon. It shows the hours from VI - VI divided into halves and quarters. The half-hour markers have the usual fleur-de-lys decoration. A decorative cipher marks noon and IIII is used for 4pm. Split Noon line. The dial measures 500mmw x 600mmh.

 

Image of dial 0082
2011
Image of dial 0082
2024

St Bartholomew’s Church, Stoke Rivers, Devon

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S0082 1770 2003 51.10250, -3.95389
N 51° 06' 09", W 03° 57' 14"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SS633355
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Jno Berry fecit Slate & iron 500 x 600