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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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Godinton House, Ashford

This is a stone sundial set into the brick wall of the house between two small second floor windows and is protected by a stone capping piece with lead flashing. The full length hour lines, half hour lines and the other dial furniture are incised and painted black. The dial has Roman numerals and the format IV is used for 4pm. It shows hours from 8am to 6pm although the hour lines are not accurately delineated; the 6pm line is not horizontal and the 8am hour line is marked VII. The gnomon has a nodus but there are no declination lines. The hour lines radiate from the outer of two semicircles at the root of the gnomon.

 

Image of dial 5729
2009

Godinton House, Godinton Lane, Ashford, TN23 3BP, Kent

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5729 16xx 2005 51.15917, 0.83167
N 51° 09' 33", E 00° 49' 54"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TQ981438
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (S) Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, bronze 1600h x 2000w estd