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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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Dial in Yorkshire (S)

The dial sits at first floor level above the front door, supported on a small neat stone corbel. It is carved in Bretton Moor, a local stone. Across the top is ’THE ASPLANDS’, and below that ’Lat 53 25 43 Long 1 32 30 / Dec 39 10’. The date ’1769’ is below the gnomon root, and at the foot of the dial is ’To blinking light we are begun / Our lifelong Journey with the Sun / So take a Moment to reprise / The Song of Time marked here to please’. The hours are upright Roman numerals for 4am to 3pm, using IV for 4, with full hour lines, and half and quarter hours marked with short lines. The rod gnomon has one short support near 11am. All the furniture is in black. There is a bronze Equation of Time graph by the front door.

 

Image of dial 8547
20xx

Privare address, Yorkshire (S)

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S8547 20xx 2024 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Harriet James Stone, bronze Approx 750w x 900h