Bernhard's Franz's largest, and only public stained glass sundial was made
for a bridge at Bernkastel-Kues (River Moselle) in Germany. It's Dial 204 in
our SGS Image Archive (20th Century):
see:
http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials_SGS3.html#Stained%20Glass%20Sundials%2020th%20Century%20(1900's)
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From: "Frank Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: dials on bridges
Greetings fellow dialists,
Dials on bridges seem not all that common and indeed I have a statement
before me that says that there are only three such dials in the British
Isles. This is a slight underestimate. I am aware of bridge dials at Ross
on Wye, Hereford, at Sinnington in North Yorkshire, at Corbridge and at
Berwick on Tweed, both Northumberland, and at Llanrwst, Gwynnedd, North
Wales. The Corbridge dial appears never to have been completed while the
dials at Sinnington, Berwick and Lllanrwst are all twentieth century. The
Ross dial, unlike the others, is a vertical and is in fact a cube; I do
not have a date for it.
A bridge seems an ideal place for a dial with lots of passers by and
unlikely to be overshadowed. Why, then, only recent bridge dials? Have we
knowledge of earlier bridge dials? In other countries?
By the way, the Berwick dial, which I am currently investigating, is a
1995 replacement for one lost in 1953 when a fisherman is said to have
moored his fishing net to it.
Frank 55N 1W.
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