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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 Mary’s Church, Witney

Rectangular vertical south-facing dial The dial plate is set into cut-back stonework at the southwest corner of the fourteenth century south transept, above the diagonal corner buttress. The dial has a semicircle round the gnomon root, then full length hour lines, shorter half and quarter hour lines to the rectangular chapter ring. The deeply cut Roman hour numerals are aligned with the hour lines and read from outside the dial. They use XII at noon and IIII at 4pm. The strip gnomon has a ’S’-shaped support. The dial is flush with the wall but has an iron dog above it restraining it.

 

Image of dial 7016
2010

St Mary’s Church, Church Green, Witney, OX28 4AW, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7016 2009 51.78222, -1.48528
N 51° 46' 56", W 01° 29' 07"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SP356094
Condition Type Access
Poor Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, iron