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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.

Dial in Oxfordshire

Octagonal horizontal memorial dial in the churchyard, southwest of the church. The centre of the dial has a crude smiling sunface. Its eight rays form a compass rose. Outside this is a ring of hourlines from 4am to 8pm but omitting noon. They seem accurate for this latitude but the gnomon angle is wrong. The chapter ring of Roman hour numerals, aligned with the hourlines, is read from outside the dial. Lastly, there is a ring of half, quarter and eighth hour marks. There is a mistake at noon, where there should be a gap the width of the gnomon. There is a gap but it is the wrong width, affecting all the marks between 11am and noon. The motto reads "Redime". The dial is set onto the octagonal top of a square section stone pedestal and stepped plinth. It is a memorial to David Mann 1919-30.

 

Image of dial 4064
2013

Privare address, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S4064 19xx 2009 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Bronze 170 a/f octagon