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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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St Lawrence Church (2), Pittington

Set into the nave wall above a butress E of the entrance porch, a simple but significant dial with its own separate dial plate. The church is from the cusp of the Norman conquest, having Norman arches built with disregard for earlier Anglo-Saxon windows. The dial is important, being unusually marked in "double hours" and is surely Anglo-Saxon but probably just from the Norman period. Detailed decorations on the time lines, clearly seen a hundred years ago, have faded and the dial plate is cracked but it has survived well for a thousand years. The dial, like others of the period, once had a horizontal gnomon and told the time in seasonal i.e. Unequal, hours.

 

Image of dial 6706
2009

St Lawrence Church (2), Pittington, Durham

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6706 2006 54.78611, -1.49000
N 54° 47' 10", W 01° 29' 24"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NZ329436
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone Estd 457 dia