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.
This is a large vertical sandstone dial, a remarkable survival considering its date of 1791. It is inscribed "This DIAL was conftructed by / Mr Whyman of GAWTHORP / in the Year 1791". Mr Whyman was the Steward at Gawthorpe Hall (now National Trust) at the time of the absentee owner, Robert Shuttleworth.
Around a circle centred on the gnomon root is the inscription: "LATITUDE 53 49. LONGITUDE FROM THE MERIDIAN OF THE OBSERVATORY AT GREENWICH [unreadable]". Aligned numerals V - XII - IIII appear, with hour lines to the circle and 30, 15 and two minute divisions around the perimeter. There is a simple bronze bar gnomon whose straight support is now slightly bent. The dial is set flush into the sandstone wall of the clerestory.
2009
St Peter’s Church, Church Street, Burnley, Lancashire
