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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.

Horniman Museum (5), Lewisham

In the gardens. Motto reads: ’And hours run mad e’en as men might’, and the dial is decorated with a design of a tea plant. The double polar dial is in the style of the Horniman logo, the verticals of the letter ’H’ forming two polar gnomons. Shows hours only (in Red for am and Blue for pm) from 7am to 4pm. The dial is made from Hopton Wood limestone, and the plinth, also decorated with a tea plant, is of Portland stone.

 

Image of dial 3891
2014

Horniman Museum (5), Forest Hill, Lewisham, SE23 3PQ, London (Greater)

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S3891 1987 2014 51.44131, -0.06139
N 51° 26' 28.7", W 00° 03' 41.0"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TQ349732
Condition Type Access
Excellent Polar Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
John Moir (delin),Richd Close Stone 500 diam