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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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Dial in Buckinghamshire

The dial is on a circular-sectioned baluster pedestal on a two-stepped square base, and is mis-placed by 180 degrees. It has hour numerals IIII - XII - IIII - VIII read from inside, with a noon gap, and divided to 30, 15 and 7.5 minutes, the half hours marked by triple dots inside both sides of the chapter ring. At the centre is a five-petalled rose and around that is an 8-point compass star, the four cardinal points being labelled and all read from the north. A similar 5-petalled rose is around each of the dial plate corner fixing holes. The gnomon is missing, and on top of the dial plate, but not attached (in April 2015) lies the plate of SRN 6624, whose gnomon can be seen in the picture.

 

Image of dial 7847
2015

Privare address, Buckinghamshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7847 2015 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Fair Horizontal Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass 171 sq