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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Dial in Norfolk

Overstrand Hall was designed by Lutyens and built in 1899, being almost contemporary with SRN6930, in the same small town. The stone dial plate is set in a frame of chamfered brickwork, in the stone wall of the south facing wall of the small courtyard at the SW corner of the building. Upright Arabic numerals 8 - 12 - 5, with hour lines to a semicircle around the gnomon root, half hour lines and quarter hour marks. The side borders and the foot are decorated with leaves and lotus flowers(?), with a bird (cockatoo?) at each bottom corner. The semicircle around the gnomon root is filled with more floral and winged motifs. Copper rod gnomon with straight support, the triangle filled with leaf decoration.

 

Image of dial 6931
2010
Image of dial 6931
2010

Privare address, Norfolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6931 1899 2009 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Edwin Lutyens Stone, copper Estd 1500 x 1500