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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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Dial in Lancashire

This brass dial is on a 1450 mm high octagonal pedestal near the south porch. The dial is old and damaged, with a broken gnomon (50 mm at the base) on a dial plate of 113 mm diameter. The unusual stone shaft is mounted on a square base and features deep semi-spherical hollows near the top, each 145 mm across. A similar but smaller pedestal, on the north side of the church, must have held another dial but none is now present. The top is a 190 mm octagon, and the pillar of 1150 mm is let into a stone 670 mm square. Hollows near the top of its four sides measure 130 mm in diameter.

 

Image of dial 1656
2012

Privare address, Lancashire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1656 2013 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Poor Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass 113 diam