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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 House, Crowthorne

Striking modern replica of an earlier sundial on the same site - a wall facing the road. The painted perspex dial has a metal rod gnomon, the tip of which acts as a nodus. Analemmas for each hour, with Roman numerals, allow GMT to be read accurately once an hour, although they don’t indicate which side of the analemma should be read on any date. Some of the analemmas are inaccurately drawn. The declination lines have Zodiac signs between them, and dates at their ends, but the dates are not those normally accepted for the Zodiac. Latitude and longitude are shown, and "3 min 12 sec after Greenwich". Also "AZ 14 deg L 166 deg" as the wall declines 14 degrees east of south. In bottom left corner "Alfred had me made / John had me restored" refers to the original 1905 dial by J A Hardcastle and the replica by D Bateman in 1987.

 

Image of dial 1717
2008

Dial House, 62 Duke’s Ride, Crowthorne, RG45 6DL, Berkshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1717 1905 2006 51.36972, -0.80194
N 51° 22' 11", W 00° 48' 07"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SU835641
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
J A Hardcastle 1868-1917 Painted perspex 1210 x 610