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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 Andrew’s Church, West Wratting

The dial, which declines 18 deg west, is supported over the south porch by two stone corbels and secured at the top by four iron clamps. It is shown in a drawing of 1746 and so must be contemporary or earlier than that. There was extensive restoration prior to 2003. There is a gold sunburst in a blue square at the gnomon root and eleven engraved declination lines, which are without markers. The upright blue Roman hour numerals run from 8am to 6pm with XII for noon and IIII for 4pm. There are 30 and 15 minute division marks; the half hour lines being topped with trefoils. The rod gnomon has a ball nodus, for use in conjunction with the declination lines, and is supported by an elegant, scrolled, support. Motto reads: "Tempus Edax Rerum" (Time consumeth all things.)

 

Image of dial 1248
 

St Andrew’s Church, The Causeway, West Wratting, CB21 5NA, Cambridgeshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1248 17xx 2007 52.14667, 0.34583
N 52° 08' 48", E 00° 20' 45"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TL606524
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone & iron 610 x 910