The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

The dial is formed of a single angled stone block. The material appears to be sandstone and is badly spalled, flaking away in layers. Oddly, the top face is the least affected surface. A vertical dial is inscribed on the south side of the lower section. The upper section inclines at the co-latitude of the location for which it was made, and bears an equatorial dial on each side, above for the summer months, below for winter. There is a simple polar dial on the narrow top edge. All the gnomons are missing. The summer equatorial bears ’DUM SPECTAS ? FUGIO’. Below is the date 1715, then ’D / R + S’ for Ralph and Susanna Dixon. The winter face has ’In sese VOLVITUR / ANNUS’ [the year rolls round in the same steps (or footprints)]. The south vertical dial has declination curves and some zodiac signs. ’CONST.’ is marked along the 10am line, with possibly Jericho on 9am. The hour numerals on the polar dial are whimsical and may be a later addition, some being reversed and some read from the inside, some outside.