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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 Marie du Castel Church, Castel

The dial has a bar gnomon with thorn nodus. The numbering is designed to be read from the origin of the gnomon, except along the base side, but 4pm and 6pm are written as VI and IV respectively. The three arcs may be a memory of earlier declination lines, or possibly a misunderstanding of the geometry.

 

Image of dial 1125
2002

St Marie du Castel Church, Castel, Guernsey

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1125 1996 49.46667, -2.58333
N 49° 28' 00", W 02° 35' 00"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
WV310787
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Limestone 500 square