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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 Northamptonshire

A fine double horizontal dial possibly made by one of Wynne’s apprentices, probably Thomas Tuttell, after 1685, but probably no later than 1705. At the South, coat of arms of the Compton family, Marquis of Northampton and Baron Wilmington, with motto ’Je ne cherche que ung’ (I seek but one). Stereo grid for 1 deg of declination and 5 min of time. Ecliptic dotted for degrees of solar longitude and marked with the zodiac sigils. Inside the arc, a large EOT table. Chapter ring IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from inside, with split noon. Half hours marked by ’H-style’ fleur de lys; divided to quarters and eighths inside the ring, and to 10 and 1 minutes outside, the 10s numbered in Arabic. The dial plate is riveted on to a cast ring. Latitude marked as 52d 14m. Full details with Report 8415. Wide fluted pillar (550 dia x 1100 high) with swags around the top, with acanthus leaf spreading base on square plinth. Ref Davis & Lowne ’The Double Horizontal’ BSS Monograph 5, Reference DH-66.

 

Image of dial 6924
2009
Image of dial 6924
2012
Image of dial 6924
2012

Privare address, Northamptonshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6924 17xx 2009 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Bronze 540 dia. 2.5 thick