In 1917 Dom Ethelbert Horne did a survey of scratch dials ('Primitive
Sundials or Scratch Dials') in Somerset and published a book on his findings..
I
understand (from my 1929, second edition) that that the second half of that
first edition consisted of a list of all the Somerset churches having Scratch
dials on them. Is there any reference to there being any Scratch dials on the
Bath Abbey Church of Saints Peter and Paul, and if so, how many were there,
where were they, and are there any pictures of them? Mrs Gatty (rather
earlier) says (p.72) that "on the walls of Bath Abbey Church there are no less
than
thirteen dials, varying in size, and the number of lines, and three of these
are on the north side".
I'd be very glad to have any information that anyone can supply on these
dials, none of which is visible today.
David Brown
Somerton,
Somerset
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