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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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Huntercombe Hall, Nuffield

The dial is set into a brickwork niche, with cowl, above the front entrance doorway and above the first floor window line. The house declines slightly to the east, and the dial delineation appears correct for this, but the gnomon lies along the noon line. It uses upright numerals VI - XII - IV - V, with hour lines to a small semicircle around the gnomon root, and dots in the chapter ring for half hours. The dial may be made from embossed lead sheet, and appears to have been painted in grey, with perhaps traces of gold remaining on the hour numerals. The bar gnomon has an ’S’ support with a small horizontal plate fitted centrally. The house was designed in 1910 by Oswald Partridge Milne.

 

Image of dial 7938
2016
Image of dial 7938
2016

Huntercombe Hall, Bradley Road, Nuffield, RG9 5SE, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7938 1910 2016 51.58861, -1.01972
N 51° 35' 19", W 01° 01' 11"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SU680882
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (D) Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Lead? Estd 1143h x 991w