Hello Frank:
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)
Or, the slightly shorter form John didn't remember:
http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials_SGS3.html#D204
Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Evans"
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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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