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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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53 Payne’s Hill, Salisbury

The dial is inset into the brick wall of the house at the eastern side of the frontage just above ground floor level. The house faces fractionally west of south and the dial appears to be delineated for this, with upright Arabic hour numerals for 7am to 6pm. Centrally below the gnomon is inscribed a conjoined ’AR’, and across the base may be ’MITIA SEMPER ERANT / HUMANIS VESTIGIA TERRA’, but this is from a poor Google Maps image and open to correction. (Google translates it as ’There were always gentle footprints on the Earth’). The bar gnomon may be iron. Better photos requested.

 

Image of dial 8390
2023

53 Payne’s Hill, Salisbury, SP1 2BN, Wiltshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S8390 2023 51.06667, -1.79000
N 51° 04' 00", W 01° 47' 24"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SU14822974 loaded.boxer.enjoy
Condition Type Access
Good Vertical (S) Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, iron