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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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, Great Thurlow

The dial is on a small island in a lake by the B1061. It appears to be a ’decorative’ ornament dial. Four gnomons each of a form suitable for a south face and each with semicircular supporters. None of the gnomon roots reaches the dial faces. No numerals, only faint equispaced lines every 2 hours which emanate up from a point below the gnomon - making the dial block appear upside down. Mounted upon an elaborate pillar 5m high and of square section with complicated profile and carved swags at the base, fruit/foliage above a central squared bowl with pineapple finial. Need binoculars to view.

 

Image of dial 1706
2003

Great Thurlow, Suffolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1706 2003 52.12194, 0.45250
N 52° 07' 19", E 00° 27' 09"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TL680499
Condition Type Access
Fair Mult Cube/Prism Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, iron 500w x 650h ea face