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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Chicksands Priory, Shefford

Motto reads: ’Hinc Humana Leguntur Tempora’. Rebus of a fly motif in centre. Shows 4am to 2pm in half hours. Uses IIII and cross patty for Noon. Sun’s rays stream from gnomon aperture. Dial upside down in a NE facing window. Provenance of dial unknown but believed to have been part of the glass collection of Sir George Osborne, an early 19th C antiquary. Chicksands Priory is located on the MOD DISC base. It is only accessable via the A600 and not via the Central Bedfordshire Council site that also calls itself Chisckands.

 

Image of dial 2291
2011
Image of dial 2291
2011
Image of dial 2291
2011

Chicksands Priory, Shefford, SG17 5PR, Bedfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2291 16xx 1994 52.04083, -0.36694
N 52° 02' 27", W 00° 22' 01"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TL121393
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stained glass 120 diam (roundel)