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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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Christ Church, Lower Broadheath

On the porch is a vertical dial declining 13° West carved on dressed sandstone blocks inserted into the wall to form the circular dial plate. It shows the hours VII - VI (using XII and IV) in half and quarter hours. Half hour markers are lines extending inwards with lozenge ends. Flat bar gnomon secured by flanges to the wall but no split sub-style. A circle surrounds the gnomon root. The dial is about 750mm in diameter. On a plaque in the church porch is an Equation of Time table. Architect for the church (completed in 1904) was C Ford Whitcombe who may have been the designer of the dial.

 

Image of dial 4338
2005

Christ Church, Lower Broadheath, Hereford & Worcester

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S4338 1904 2000 52.21361, -2.27806
N 52° 12' 49", W 02° 16' 41"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SO811573
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
? C Ford Whitcombe Stone, bronze 750 diam estd