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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 in Berkshire

Pearson Page model 4227, a copy of the original stone dial at Peterborough, SRN 6078. Mainly vertical Arabic numerals 6 - noon - 6, but both 6’s in Roman, and noon is a cross patty. Hour lines pass through numerals. Large inscription along lower edge of dial "VIVAT CAROLVS SECVNDVS", with the date "16 63" just above it. Inside the chapter ring are "Mihi Opidum [sic] Carcer est et Solitudo / PARADISUS" and "DEVS NOBISCVM / ET CORONA MANVM OPVS NOSTRVM". "W + H" below the gnomon root, and lower down a crown symbol. Around the top arch, being the continuation of the chapter ring, "O Beata Solitudo O Sola Beatitudo". Gatty 1900 p 350 has the Peterborough original. She translates the inscriptions as "O blessed solitariness - O solitary blessedness: the town to me is a prison, and solitude my Paradise. O God, be with us, and crown the work of our hands. Long live Charles II". The quotations "O Beata ... Beatitudo" and "Mihi ... Paradisus" are from St Jerome. The dial is mounted beneath the ridge-apex of the front door-way porch (west-facing).

 

Image of dial 6358
2008
Image of dial 6358
2008

Privare address, Berkshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6358 19xx 2007 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (S) Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Pearson Page Brass 521h x 464w x5t