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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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All Saints’ Church, Sunderland, Maryland, USA

Inscr reads: "A Wise man’s heart descerneth both time and Judgment Ecel’s ch VIII Ve5". Dial gives Lat as N3900. and gives place as "All St’s Parish Calvt County". Shows 5am to 7pm in 30, 15 marks and (in Arabic twenties) 10 and 2 min marks. Uses XII and IIII. Numerals read from outside the dial. Gnomon is an old replacement. Kept indoors. Replica is on a square section brick pedestal with two tier stone capital. Commissioned in thanks for the first consecrated bishop of America. Original stolen and recovered in 1990, which is the date of the replica.

 

All Saints’ Church, Sunderland, Maryland, USA, Overseas Dials

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5848 1790 2004 39.00000, -76.66667
N 39° 00' 00", W 76° 40' 00"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Edward Nairne, London Bronze 355 diam estd