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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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St George’s Parish Church, Kelmscott

Vertical south-facing dial. The dial is on a quoin (cornerstone) on your right as you face the porch. Faint hour lines are just visible on the left side of the dial. The right is better preserved and also has Roman numerals aligned with the hour lines and inscribed to the right of them. As is not uncommon, the point of the ’V’ points towards the gnomon. It would have shown 6am to 6pm, but only 10 am and 1pm to 5pm are now apparent. There are hour lines but no evidence of finer divisions. The gnomon is of strip form with a single straight supporter, apparently cut from the same sheet of metal.

 

Image of dial 2104
2010

St George’s Parish Church, (in the centre of the village), Kelmscott, GL7 3HF, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2104 2009 51.69278, -1.64111
N 51° 41' 34", W 01° 38' 28"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SU249994
Condition Type Access
Poor Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, Fe gn 360w x 155h