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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, Woodleigh

The slate dial on the porch has a central circular finial with smaller diamond shapes at the sides. It declines East and shows VI - IIII undivided, unless the decorative ciphers in the chaper ring are meant to indicate the half hours. In the circular finial are the initials of the warden and the date 1707. Stars lie inside the diamonds. Scrolls and a star appear at the side of the sunburst which has lost its face, perhaps following the fitting of a new and rather crude gnomon which has been bent from an iron rod. The dial measures 450mmw x 680mmh.

 

Image of dial 0574
2014
Image of dial 0574
2014

St Mary’s Church, Woodleigh, Devon

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S0574 1707 1986 50.32556, -3.77417
N 50° 19' 32", W 03° 46' 27"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SX738488
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Slate 450 x 680