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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 in Hampshire

The very simple dial has full length hour lines from 5am to 7pm but no finer divisions. The small Roman numerals, read from the opposite side of the dial are aligned with the centre, not the gnomon foot / hour lines. There is an Equation of Time table giving the difference between GMT and sun time on the first of each month. Around the dial is a motto: "Within this scented garden close, whoso desires may win repose / An earthly Paradise it seems - of cypresses, green lawns and streams / And if your host you wish to please, converse of nothing else but these. / Translated from the Persian original by your host John Charles Edward Bowen". The gnomon, elaborately pierced in a plant-like form, has evidently been distorted at some time. A more recent photograph seems repaired. The pedestal is a 910mm high tapering octagonal shaft with a square capital (repaired) and plinth.

 

Image of dial 2711
2011
Image of dial 2711
2011

Privare address, Hampshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2711 1990 2000 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Excellent Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass 298 diam