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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Dial in Lancashire

The base of this sundial, a stone pedestal on a substantial tower of six square stone steps, probably dates from the 13th or 14th century and would originally have been the churchyard cross. It was altered in the 17th century to hold a horizontal bronze sundial, whose dial plate is still present though the gnomon disappeared in the 1950s. The dial shows hour marks from IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, with bases to the inside, and hour lines to a circle around the gnomon root. There are also half hour marks, but more divisions are not clear. The topmost stone step of the base is inscribed: "I am a shadow / So art thou / I mark time / Dost thou".

 

Image of dial 1642
2010

Privare address, Lancashire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1642 2010 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Bronze Oct 230 a/f