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Sun Dial House, Brighton

The dial is on the north side of the road. It was restored in 2008 and is now a shadow of its former self, having lost the striking raised yellow lettered mottoes shown in our final photograph. The dial is mounted in a pedimented stone back and frame and has gold filled lines and numerals. It uses upright numerals VII - XII - IIII - VI in quarter and half hours, the inward pointing half hour lines having lozenge end markers and the hour lines cutting through the numerals. The elaborately scrolled gnomon is externally fitted and has a one-sided brace. Now ’Sundial Chiropractic Clinic’. The original mottoes read: ’Our Days on Earth are but a shadow / and there is none abiding’ and ’UT HORA PRAETERITA / SIC FUGIT VITA’ and were formed from separate surface mounted yellow lettering.

 

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Sun Dial House 111 Queens Road Brighton Sussex (E)

SRN Year Recorded Coords
0605 1897 2020 50.82528, -0.14278
N 50° 49' 31", W 00° 08' 34"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TQ309045 UK000921
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Slate & metal 1210 x 1520