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The dial is now missing, but the pedestal is situated near the Park’s southern entrance from Denmark Hill. It is of terracotta, badly cracked, and 990 mm high. The top is almost a cube 240 H × 290 W × 290 D, and on each vertical face there is a carved Tudor rose.
Listed Grade II. Recently restored and resited. The sundial was erected to commemorate Mendelssohn’s visit to his relatives, the Benecke family, at Dane House, 168 Denmark Hill, in 1842. It was moved from the garden of Dane House, though not far, when Ruskin Park (opened 1907) was formed and the house demolished (in 1904). On or near the sundial there was an inscription “Here stood the house where Mendelssohn wrote the Spring Song 1842”.
Ref: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol26/pp146-154
Ref: heritageoflondon.org/project/Mendelssohn-sundial
Update: A replica dial was installed in 2023, see SRN 8431.
2018
Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, Brixton, Lambeth, SE5 8EL, London (Greater)
