The Forum Shopping Centre, Stevenage

The dial is a large nine-ring armillary sphere standing on a two-step circular granite base in the pavement at the north end of Queensway, outside Lloyds and Barclays Banks. Four of the rings are labelled (Polar, Meridian, Equatorial and Colure), though the last is questionable. The hour ring shows VI - XII - IV - VI, divided to 30, 15 and 5 minutes. The outside of the horizon ring is inscribed on the south: ’To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour’ (all in caps), from William Blake. On the north is the latitude and longitude and the date and the maker (D Harber). Inside the horizon ring is ’RICHARDSON CALDWELL’ who commissioned the dial. The steel base plate holds compass points, and arrows pointing to towns twinned with Stevenage, with their bearings and distance in nautical miles - Chimkent, Russia; Ingelheim, Germany; Autun, France; and Kadoma, Zimbabwe.