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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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Guildhall (Old Gaol House), Kings Lynn

Inscribed across the top ’ S BUNNETT Fecit’, and with motto ’Tempus Fugit’ in a semicircle below the gnomon root. Upright numerals VII - XII - IIII - VI, divided to quarter hours. Iron bar gnomon with curled ’S’ support. Upright numerals VII - XII - IIII - VI, with hour lines to semicircle, half hour lines terminating in fleur-de-lys, and quarter hour marks in a border. The dial is mounted at the lower roof line high up over the front entrance.

 

Image of dial 1269
2011
Image of dial 1269
2005

Guildhall (Old Gaol House), Saturday Market Place, Kings Lynn, PE30 5DL, Norfolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1269 1784 2011 52.75167, 0.39444
N 52° 45' 06", E 00° 23' 40"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TF617198
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
S Bunnett Stone 1520 x 1520