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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 Oxfordshire

Outer chapter ring upright numerals IX - XII - IV - VI, with ’OLD TIME’; inner with Arabic numerals 10 - 13- 19, and ’NEW SUMMER TIME’. Hour lines to semicircle around gnomon foot, and short half hour lines. The dial is flanked by two fluted pilasters and topped with an arch, within which is ’ HORAS / NON NVMERO NISI SERENAS ’, and a scallop shell. Below the dial ’ I COUNT THE SUNNY HOURS ALONE ’. Bar gnomon with the date 1920 included in a double support strut. The dial structure is the centre portion of a curved brick and stone wall, with low pillars at eiher end. The whole forms a memorial to friends and associates lost in the first World War. It was restored in 2008. Very full details and photographs are held in the archive.

 

Image of dial 7232
2011
Image of dial 7232
2011

Privare address, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7232 1920 2011 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Sir Arthur Evans Stone, brass