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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 Mary’s Church, East Bergholt

This breakarch shaped wooden dial is above the entrance to the south porch. It is painted with black lines and border on a white ground and with gold numerals, and shows the time from 6am to 5pm in hours and half hours. There is a scroll design in the centre of the arch and a half sun (in gold) at the gnomon root. The metal strip gnomon has a single back-raked supporter. The motto around the arch reads: "Time passeth away like a shadow". This sundial also features in a painting by John Constable.

 

Image of dial 0312
2010
Image of dial 0312
2011

St Mary’s Church, The Street, East Bergholt, CO7 6TA, Suffolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S0312 2000 51.96944, 1.01222
N 51° 58' 10", E 01° 00' 44"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TM070344
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Wood painted 1500 x 1000