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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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University Hall, St Andrews

The dial is above ground-floor windows in the right-hand end of the SE facing wall of the block. It is inscribed ’LAT 56 20 7 N Long 11 12 W’, longitude being shown as the time to add for GMT in minutes and seconds. Upright Arabic numerals for 4am to 4pm with ’+’ for noon. Hour lines to small semicircle around the gnomon root.

 

Image of dial 7712
2021
Image of dial 7712
2021
Image of dial 7712
2010
Image of dial 7712
2010
Image of dial 7712
2023

University Hall, Kennedy Gardens, St Andrews, KY16 9DL, Fife

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7712 1911 2021 56.33797, -2.81103
N 56° 20' 16.7", W 02° 48' 39.7"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NO49961647 retailing.elbowing.symphoni6
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (D) Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, metal