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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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Belchamp Walter Hall, Belchamp Walter

Shows 5am to 7pm in half and quarter hours. Uses XII and IIII. Numerals read from inside the dial. Noon gap. Design Latitude given as N5327. Underside of dial is not machined. Solid sheet gnomon with ’S’ shaped back edge and with a hole passing through it in the middle. Two trapezoidal gnomon side supporter plates bolted to the dialplate. Two small holes in dialplate at ends of the styles. Décor in the spandrels (round the mounting holes). Its pedestal is of white stone in the form of a cylindrical column and slight baluster. Circular capital and square plinth.

 

Belchamp Walter Hall, Belchamp Walter, Essex

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5994 1772 2004 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TL826407
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
John Millar fecit Bronze 90 square