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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 Lincolnshire

The dial stands in the south east area of the churchyard, on an octagonal sectioned baluster style pedestal on a three stepped octagonal plinth, itself on a two-stepped base, raising the dial to about 1500mm above ground level. The dial is heavily oxidised but the maker’s name can be read at the heel of the gnomon. At the south, read from the north, is inscribed ’Watch for ye / know not the hour’, and below that ’William Calton[?] xxx / [xxxxx]’. Hours IIII - XII - IIII - VIII read from outside, with noon gap, and divided to 30, 10 and 2 minutes. In the centre is an 8-point compass rose, and there is an EOT scale with four bands but too badly corroded to discern any details.

 

Image of dial 7850
2015
Image of dial 7850
2015
Image of dial 7850
2015

Privare address, Lincolnshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7850 17xx 2015 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Poor Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
J Bird, London Brass 330 dia