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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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Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Montis

The dial is high on the central buttress of the chancel, a single oblong stone slab with the mortar line as the horizontal ’6-to-6’ and the numerals framed. The top edge of the frame is cut along the stones above; clear on the left one, faint on the right. There are large upright Roman numerals on each side and small ones along the bottom of the dial, using IIII for IV and a Greek cross for noon. The full length hour lines are more distinct on the right hand side. The present gnomon is a simple metal triangle, possibly aluminium. It is unclear what the 2 iron pegs at the bottom are for, though they appear to be designed to hold up a stone tablet - perhaps at one time a different dial or a memorial slab was placed over the original dial.

 

Image of dial 2905
2021
Image of dial 2905
1999

Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Montis, Somerset

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2905 1999 51.02139, -2.53611
N 51° 01' 17", W 02° 32' 10"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
ST625248
Condition Type Access
Poor Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, metal gn 380 x 300