Included in the "bad sundials" list should be sundials, which were
properly constructed for the location but improperly installed or
improperly re-installed after cleaning or refurbishment. I happened to
notice one I think falls in the latter category on the way to the
terminal at Heathrow Airport last week. When the "Hoppa" bus stopped
at the Renaissance Hotel off Bath Road (on the airport or south side),
looking out the bus window, I noticed their sundial in the small
garden in front of the main entrance. This is an equatorial dial. The
gnomon does not point to the NCP. It points to the south and looks
like the whole sundial needs to be rotated 180 degrees about the
vertical. I didn't have time to get out and look at it more closely
but I suspect there are four symmetrical mounting bolts and the
sundial installer just plunked it down in the first orientation that
fitted the bolts. Or some such mounting problem. The picture on their
website seems to have the correct orientation judging by the direction
of the shadow of the whole sundial.
http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/photo-tours.mi?marshaCode=lhrbr&pageID=HWHOM&imageID=2
Has anyone else noticed this "bad sundial"? Or reported it to the
hotel? Pictures taken from inside the bus available on request.
-- Richard
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