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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 Sussex (W)

Double Horizontal Dial, gnomon missing. Shows 4am to 8pm in 30, 15, 10, 7.5, 5 and 1 min marks. Uses XII & IIII. Split Noon line. Inward half hour marks use three dots, outward use one dot. One min marks are numbered in (Arabic) tens. Divided 32 pt azimuth scale around inner periphery gives 96 divisions. Date scales in arcs apply to curved grid of lines of declination and time. Dates are named and lines enhanced successively for each 5 days. Equator and tropic arcs with zodiacal identifiers. Diagonal altitude scale with use of triple dot for subdivisions. Design latitude appears to be N5210. The dial was originally mounted to the north of the house, on a finely carved octagonal pedestal and later capital, 1140h. Refer Report 629/257 for details. The dial is now (2001) in secure hands elsewhere.

 

Image of dial 4531
2001
Image of dial 4531
2001

Privare address, Sussex (W)

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S4531 2001 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Henricus Wynne, Londini fecit Bronze 414 a/f octagon