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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 Berkshire

Memorial dial on a grave. The dial has aligned Roman hour numerals read from outside IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, with noon gap. Short hour lines and half, quarter and eighth hour marks. 8-point compass rose centred on gnomon toe; two birds (phoenix?) in centre of dial plate. The hour lines are for 54 degrees north, so this appears to be a mass-produced dial calculated for that latitude - York, perhaps. Note that this is one of three sundials in this cemetery, all set on very similar tapered circular-section stone pedestals with deep circular capitals and bases. The three dials are very close together near the main pathway from the cemetery entrance, on the south side of the path. SRN 6340 in Sandhurst is almost identical, though more weathered. It has a gnomon, though badly damaged.

 

Image of dial 5025
1997

Privare address, Berkshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5025 2006 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Pearson Page? Brass 171 dia