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.
This is called a diptych dial, it has two faces. The motto on the SW face reads ’Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua’ (Don’t criticise the time I give you but publish your own). It is a quote from Martial, Epigram 1.91 line 2. Epigram 1.91 reads in full: ’Cum tua non edas, carpis mea carmina, Laeli. Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua’. The SE face has ’Decli 45 deg in y lat 53d 15m 1717’. The dial is a memorial to the Mainwaring brothers drowned at sea. There are semi circles at the gnomons’ roots with the name John Edwards. One of the gnomons is missing but the dial still qualifies for one of the best in Cheshire. It is near the church entrance.
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St Lawrence’s Church, Over Peover, WA16 9HW, Cheshire
