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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 House, Cretingham

The house is opposite St Peter’s Church. It shows 7am to 4pm in hours, with numerals 7-16 on squares of stainless steel, all attached individually to brick side of house. Gnomon angle implies declination. Numeral twelve is not vertically below the gnomon root and the dial appears to be longitude corrected. Surface mounted bar gnomon with no supporter.

 

Dial House, Cretingham, Suffolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5571 1987 2003 52.19861, 1.25889
N 52° 11' 55", E 01° 15' 32"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TM228606
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Owner of the House Steel Not measured