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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Dial in Cumbria

The dial plate is square, with a circular chapter ring and the noon line along a diagonal. It uses IV - XII - IV - VIII, read from the outside, with no noon gap and no hour lines or subdivisions. The corners of the plate are engraved Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, arranged clockwise with Summer at noon, and decorated with appropriate flowers and foliage. At the centre is an 8-point compass rose labelled to NE etc. All furniture apart from the season names is embossed. The gnomon support is a flower in bud. The dial plate is mounted diagonally on the pedestal previously occupied by SRN 0169, a square section pillar on three substantial steps.

 

Image of dial 8158
2020
Image of dial 8158
2020

Privare address, Cumbria

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S8158 20xx 2020 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass? Estd 170 x 170