Hello Sundiallists,
This is my first post hence 'hello!' though I've been listening for quite a while. I have a question about church orientation. For a while now I've been collecting sundials, photographically that is, and I notice that not a few that are mounted on churches are mounted at an angle to the south-facing wall. Sometimes by means of a bracket , sometimes by simply setting them in the wall at an angle and one fairly modern-looking one is simply declining east (by about 13 degrees). The magnitude of the angle varies between the dials though they are all in the Cotswolds and at similar longitudes. So what's going on? I was always told the churches are oriented east-west so the south wall should really be facing south. The church with the east decliner also has a much older (and more decrepit) dial which, as far as I can see, is an ordinary direct south vertical dial. If I ever get a dial web-site organised you can see for yourselves. In the meantime, does anyone know what's going on here? Cheers, Richard
