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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.

Thringhill Farm House, Kirkby Stephen

Upright numerals IX - XII - IV - VI, no subdivisions. Date below 1714 or 1717. Hour lines to semi-circle around gnomon root. Modern inscription on nearby doorway ’Historia stulto relata vita est / plena vocis et furoris sed / nihil significat’ (cf Macbeth ’it is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing’).

 

Image of dial 7353
2010
Image of dial 7353
2010

Thringhill Farm House, Nateby, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7353 1714 2010 54.44806, -2.34694
N 54° 26' 53", W 02° 20' 49"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NY776059
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (D) Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Sandstone, iron 550w x 420h