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 John the Baptist Church, Pampisford
The dial is fitted on the south-west face of the south-east buttress to the chancel of the church and declines 68 deg west.
The face of the dial consists of a cut-out semicircular brass scale with overlaid rods for the hour lines and engraved black filled numerals and letters. This is set on a slate slab. It shows 10am to 8pm in hours and uses Roman numerals with XII for noon and IIII for 4pm. The numerals are aligned with the hour lines. And there are no sub-divisions.
The rod gnomon extending from the root has no supporter.
Motto reads: ’I decline to tell the time’. There is another inscription stamped on the boss at the root of the gnomon, which is indistinct and may include the year 1987. (This seems to conflict with the approximate installation date, at this site, of June/July 2003.)
St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane, Pampisford, CB22 3ET, Cambridgeshire
| SRN | Year | Recorded | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| S5388 | 1987 | 2003 | 52.11194, 0.18611 N 52° 06' 43", E 00° 11' 10" |
| Condition | Type | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Vertical (D) | Open |
| Maker | Materials | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|
| Brass |