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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 Cumbria

An elaborate plate. Places (from S of dial, anticlockwise - Quinzay / CONSTANTINOPLE / Roy... ?Rome / ?? / NINEVE / Moſcow / ?? / EPHESUS / ? ? / ?? / C... / Paris / Amsterdam / NOON / Dublin / Dantzick / I of Man / C...?Quill / Ifeland L.J.. / Limerick / Ian... / Ba..d.. ?Bermuda / Port Royall / Mexico . There is a small one month calendar engraved at the south point. ‘ROBERT SPURRELL’ with very elaborate initial letters is inscribed at the south edge of the plate. 4am to 8pm in half hour intervals. Numerals are Roman and enclosed within concentric circles. Roman 4 =IIII.

 

Image of dial 7517
2012

Privare address, Cumbria

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7517 1720 2012 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Robert Spurrell Bronze 305 x 305