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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 John the Evangelist Church, Caldecott, Rutland

The church stone is dated 1648 but a bronze in the porch says that the dial date is 1935, a gift to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary. The dial plate is set in stone edging and is decorated with Masonic symbols. In the spandrels are moon and stars; sun; square and compasses; feathers. An All-Seeing Eye appears at the gnomon root. The motto is placed in an open book: ’Your Sunny Hours Alone I tell’. Aligned numerals VI - XII - IIII - VI, with split noon, and divided to 30, 15 and 5 minutes. The gnomon has square section and a single straight horizontal support.

 

Image of dial 1378
2011
Image of dial 1378
2011

St John the Evangelist Church, Church Lane, Caldecott, Rutland, Leics & Rutland

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1378 1935 2012 52.53417, -0.72167
N 52° 32' 03", W 00° 43' 18"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SP868937
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
All bronze 450square