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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.

St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton

The dial is 100 m NW of the church. It shows 4am to 8pm in 30, 15 and 5 min marks, with numerals read from outside the dial. Circle centred on gnomon root. Set on spirally fluted baluster column with stylised decor of bulbous part. The baluster was reported in 2019 to be starting to lean over. Memorial to PB Drummond d1958. Another identical pedestal (square dial missing) nearby.

 

St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5132 1958 2010 51.59056, -1.72000
N 51° 35' 26", W 01° 43' 12"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SU195880
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass 229 diam