On the North wall of the Close of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England,
is a groove with the word MERIDIES, which is apparently a noon mark acting
in conjunction with the spire.  The spire is just over 400 feet (122 m) high
and the wall is nearly that far from its base.  It was mentioned in BSS
Bulletin 91.3 pp22-23 and also in Peter Ransom's "A Dozen Dials".  I hope to
publish some more about it in the BSS Bulletin in the near(ish) future.  

Of course it's not as big as Mont St Michel (see
http://maget.maget.free.fr/SiteMont/ for some details of that temporary
dial) but it beats most other things - but wasn't there once a (now
non-existent?) "mountain dial" with markers on the hillside somewhere?

However the "volume" definition of size is a very good one for eliminating a
noon mark!

Andrew James
N 51 04' W 01 18' 
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