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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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Rousham Park House, Rousham

By the pigeon house in the rose garden east of the house is a bronze horizontal dial 314mm in diameter made by Dollond of London.. It shows the customary hours IV - VIII divided into halves and quarters.The hours are also displayed in Arabic numerals and divided into periods of 10 And 2 minutes. There is an Equation of Time scale and round the centre of the dial a 16-point compass rose. There is a noon gap to compensate for the 7/16" thick gnomon. The dial is mounted on a tapering stone column with a circular capital.

 

Image of dial 5989
2004
Image of dial 5989
2010

Rousham Park House, Rousham, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5989 2010 51.91417, -1.30500
N 51° 54' 51", W 01° 18' 18"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SP479242
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Dollond, London Bronze 314 diam