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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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Beamish Museum, Stanley

The dial is on a pedestal in the town park. It is 205 diameter, mounted on, or possibly integral with, a larger 290 dia plate. The gnomon is broken. It has outline double horizontal furniture with Roman and Arabic numerals and is possibly an amateur work. It shows 4am to 8pm. Ref: See DH-6 in Monograph No 5, the Double Horizontal Dial.

 

Beamish Museum, Stanley, Durham

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S0846 18xx 1992 54.88750, -1.66167
N 54° 53' 15", W 01° 39' 42"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NZ218548
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
J.B. Bronze 290 diam o/a