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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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Castle Gates Main Library, Shrewsbury

Two dials one declining 54 degrees East and the other 46 degrees West. They are on the left corner of the entrance. The numbers are engraved and the lines painted. Date inferred from 1805 engraving claiming to be as completed 1630.....? See also "Shrewsbury Library. Its History & Restoration".

 

Castle Gates Main Library, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1947 1630 1998 52.71056, -2.75194
N 52° 42' 38", W 02° 45' 07"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SJ493128
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone 1820 x 1520 estd