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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 Oswald’s Church, Howell

The dial is set into the stonework below the eaves at the west end of the nave, adjacent to the belfry, and slightly canted out on the rhs. Aligned numerals. Down each side they are read from inside, but written to be read clockwise, so V IV IIV IIIV XI. Eleven is XI and noon a cross patty. Afternoon hours I II II IIII V IV IIV. An unusually complete example of this convention, apart from eleven am. Hour lines to a very small semicircle around the gnomon root, and no subdivisions. Intitials ’T W’ at the tlh corner, and the date ’1630’ (or possibly ’1632’) at top centre. A triangular plate gnomon (with centre removed), in good condition, probably a replacement.

 

Image of dial 7455
2012

St Oswald’s Church, Howell, Lincolnshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7455 1630 2012 52.00111, -0.31000
N52004, W 00° 18' 36"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TF135462
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, iron Estf 457 sq