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In the BSS Newsletter just published there is a section about finding new sundials in Britain by looking at #sundial on Twitter and Instagram. This email is just to save BSS members having to retype links from the printed page. www.twitter.com/search?q=%23sundial www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/ I found these nine dials, none of which are in the BSS Register, in just a few hours looking through images posted over the last few weeks. 1) Sexby Gardens, Peckham Rye Park, London, SE15 3UA A nice new horizontal installed in 2005 when the gardens were refurbished. EoT graph included 2) Ada Salter Rose Garden, Southwark Park, London, SE16 2ET A largish dial in a public park , built into the paving of a formal garden, Dated 1936 3) Rose Garden, Saughton Park, Edinburgh, EH11 3HP A frankly rather large column dial with at least three dial faces. This defiantly comes into the category of “How did we miss it?” 4) St Conan’s Kirk, Loch Awe, On A85, on the way to Oban, PA33 1AL A horizontal dial with lovely sun design in the gnomon, Overlooks Loch Awe 5) Sundial Cafe, Main St, Limekilns, Dumfirmline, KY11 3HG A vertical dial marked as 1689, On the Main Street Late breaking news - I’ve subsequently seen another photo on the web showing this is two dials - the South facing dial I had seen + an East facing dial around the corner which I missed 6) St Mary Magdalene Church, Winsford, Somerset, TA24 7JQ Magnificent horizontal with lots of detail, sadly covered in moss making reading details very tricky 7) Gawsworth Hall , near Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9RN Gawsworth Hall seems to have an old horizontal as well as the vertical already recorded. The Register is also missing a photo of the vertical dial 3095 if anyone is visiting this location 8) Flower Garden, Kennington Park, Kennington, Lambeth, SE11 4BE Great new slate dial with domed appearance. Gnomon is made of slate too but it’s very thick. Now that’s what I call a noon-gap! 9) Mapperton House, Mapperton , Dorset, DT8 3NR So-so looking dial. Appears to have no noon gap so unsure of rest of delineation. Don’t go out of your way for this one I have an electronic (pdf) document of all the dials above but with the Instagram/Twitter/Google photos included. For each dial there is also a link to Google or StreetMap to guide you as best as I can manage. It is available from my Google drive at http://bit.ly/2b5p32J I’ve also created a Google Map with them on http://bit.ly/2aXDLq5 Of course BSS doesn’t have the rights to any of the photographs I scrape off the internet. We can keep a copy as a record but shouldn’t be including them in the Register. Also the technical details are just whatever you can see and deduce from the photos, not real measurements. Please i can encourage BSS members to get out to see these dials, take photos, record dimensions then send in a report. The Newsletter says “If you are a BSS Recorder in the vicinity of any of the locations please can you check the dials and put in a proper report for the Register” but of course I should have said “Any BSS members in the vicinity of any of the locations ....”. Reports from new recorders are always welcome. If you haven’t put a report in before then there a few guidelines on the BSS website at http://sundialsoc.org.uk/dials_menu/the-sundial-register/guidelines-completing-form/ The recording form is available from the members only area of the BSS website or from John Foad, the Registrar. Spotting new dials this way seems a great source of new sightings! Ian Maddocks Chester, UK N 53:11:50 W 2:52:41 frog.happy.froze I had compiled the list above when text for the newsletter was submitted a few weeks ago. Since then I have found many more dials mainly on Instagram and I’ve stopped looking at Twitter. As abve they have all been checked as new to the Register by John so I’ve created two more documents with photos and map links (10 to 24 , 25 to 46) http://bit.ly/2c0qs6D http://bit.ly/2cbDnZF The Google map link above already has all the dials in as new layers. I hope by putting this complete list out now we might get some visit reports in whilst it is still summer 10) Thurnham Country House B&B, Castle Hill, Thurnham, nr Bearsted, ME14 3LE Horizontal set in formal gardens, Classic country house dial 11) The Rookery, Streatham Common Park, Covington Way, Streatham , London SW16 3BY A perfectly reasonable standard public park horizontal 12) Cleeve House Country House B&B, Trowbridge Rd, Seend, SN12 6PG Large wall declining dial built high on wall. It declines and is canted out from the wall - I wonder if has been moved? 13) Emmanuel Church , Upper Olland St (B1435), Bungay , Suffolk NR35 1BE Dial in a churchyard. The style of the dial plate corners seems old, but the gnomon looks more modern, The dial is visible in StreetView 14) The Rose Garden, Rufford Abbey Country Park, Ollerton. Nottinghamshire NG22 9DF A new Gunning Heliochronometer, still shiny 15)The Rose Garden Belvoir Castle Gardens, Belvoir, Leicestershire NG32 1PE Gunning Heliochronometer but seems to have been installed with the dial plate horizontal! 16)Lauriston Castle, Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD Multiple/cube dial 17) Castle Kennedy, Stranraer, DG9 8SL Medium to large horizontal In the walled garden. No metal dial plate as dial appears to be the same sandstone as the plinth 18) “The Burn” Centre , Glenesk, Brechin DD9 7YP Horizontal , To the west of the building >From www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/622/description “A sundial stands on the lawn on the west side of the house. It was made for Lord Adam Gordon by Wm Robb of Montrose in 1796 and it originally stood on the lawn to the east of the house.” 19) Bramham Park, Wetherby LS23 6ND Horizontal In the walled garden 20) Beach House, East Harbour Way, Burnham, Overy Staithe, Norfolk, PE31 8JF Modern new clean vertical built into new building in 2015 21) Whatton Hall, Long Whatton, nr Kegworth, LE12 5BG Magnificent plinth with four supporting figures. Large country house dial on ornate plinth. Dial is still very legible too. Words don’t do it justice, see http://www.hha.org.uk/Property/267/Whatton-House-and-Gardens 22)T he Silver Jubilee Garden, Laskett Gardens, Laskett Ln, Much Birch, Hereford HR2 8HZ Armillary Sphere in Jubilee Gardens “In the middle stands a sundial from Sir Cecil Beaton's garden at Broadchalke, Wiltshire.” 23) Tooting Bec Lido, Tooting Bec, London, SW16 1RU Largish vertical dial on the building at the north end of the pool 24) Newington Green, London, N16 9PX In the Newington Green Park, a memorial horizontal just to the south of the building on the western edge. If you visit this dial please check the orientation : from photos it appears the gnomon is pointing W or NW. 25) On the harbour breakwater, Broughty Ferry, Tayside, DD5 2TF Large public horizontal built into the harbour breakwater. A few meters across. Gnomon in the form of a sail. Visible on Google Earth 26) Cringletie House Hotel, Edinburgh Rd Peebles EH45 8PL Octagonal country house dial. May be a replacement as it doesnt’ seem to fit quite right in the recess in the top of the plinth. Looks old though. 27) Deanbrae House, Bells Brae, Dean, Edinburgh, EH3 7UA Two dials at the same location - a corner cube 3 faced dial which is getting rather eroded, plus a vertical (approx S) on the wall just to the left of it. Don’t miss the second one! 28) Hursley House, Hursley, SO21 2JN Haddonstone horizontal in the grounds of Hursley House, now owned by IBM. Probably Private 29) Wakehurst Place, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, RH17 6TN The same Haddonstone design of dial 30) Horsham Museum Garden, 9 Causeway, Horsham RH12 1HE Locally made horizontal dial. Elegantly thin gnomon that would asking for trouble in a public park. Thank goodness it’s in a museum garden. 31)Balliol College, Oxford David Harbour spherical dial with moving gnomon to read time when it cast no shadow. Installed to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the first admission of women to Balliol. I wonder if you’re allowed on the grass to move the gnomon and read the time. 32) Public Park, Gynack St, Kingussie, PH21 1EL Seems to be a modern dial with brutally ugly gnomon reusing an old plinth. Don’t go out of your way unless you have to pull off the A9 for a break. Seriously! 33) Sisson’s Butchers, 1 George St, Pocklington, ER Yorkshire, YO42 2AX Memorial vertical dial for William Watson, Yorkshire sundial maker - We saw some of his dials on the Saturday tour at the York conference in 2001. Installed 2012 34) Avebury Manor [NT], High St, Avebury, Wiltshire SN8 1RF Armillary Sphere on the south lawn of a country manor. Please check the orientation of this dial - the Instagram photo seems to show the gnomon is pointing approx SW (if the view is looking N at the manor the gnomon ought to be pointing away from the camera. 35) Riverside Park, Newark Large public park horizontal. Gnomon looks like a giant upside-down grey and blue ice cream cone/sea shell?. Hour markers set into public park. Very interesting modern design. from http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/downloads/dmsimgs/Newark-CT-historic_riverside_part1_1144984407.pdf “Cross the bridge to see the Millennium Monument, built in the form of a sundial. Thirteen slate markers are sunk into the turf to mark the hours. Each is inscribed with an event significant in Newark’s history. The gnomon (the bit that sticks up) bears a wavy blue line signifying the river as well as dates relating to the events portrayed on the markers. 36) Armentieres Square, Back Grosvenor St., Stalybridge, Gtr Manchester. SK15 2JL Next to canal lock. Very large dial in the form of two lock gates, one of which is aligned to act as gnomon. http://www.stalybridge.org.uk/lockgates-sundial.html 37) Heaton Park Tramway Museum, Heaton Park, Manchester On the top of the old tramway museum building, a simple vertical dial 38) St Micheal’s Church, Lower Machen, nr Brassaleg, South Wales NP10 8GU I’m worried someone has put a direct South dial on a building which (on Google Earth) declines the East. Also the 6 am/pm lines are drawn not as a horizon line. A pity as this is otherwise a lovely clean nicely designed new dial 39) Physic Garden, The Butts, Cowbridge, CF71 7AP, Glamorgan A nice modern vertical south-ish dial in what appears to be a quiet retreat of a garden. 40) Beaulieu House, Beaulieu, SO42 7ZN Lovely new 2011 vertical declining dial with nodus and declination lines commemorating two family birthdays and a wedding anniversary 41) Dorchester Abbey, High St, Dorchester OX10 7HH Another new Haddonstone horizontal in a recently renovated formal garden. If visiting also see 5936 Vertical should be on Abbey tower 42) Luton Hoo House (Hotel), nr Luton LU1 3TQ Fine country house horizontal Please check orientation - in Instagram photos dial appears to be pointing almost directly at house, whereas Google Earth shows it should be pointing to the right of the house. Dial is at gap between the two gardens. Some photos appear to show clean white stone plinth, others seem grubbier 43) Luton Hoo Walled Garden, Luton Hoo Estate, Luton LU1 4LF New analemmatic Note this is not connected to Luton Hoo Hotel. It’s separate and just down the road. Appears to be only open for specific staged events. 44) Gargunnock Church, Gargunnock, FK8 3AX Seems a nice clearly delineated horizontal to commemorate the 200th year of the church in 1974 45) Downing College Cambridge Another 200 year commemoration dial this time 1800-2000. A fine dark stone dial (?granite) with thick gnomon. 46) Eastcote Gardens, Eastcote A horizontal dating from the late 80s. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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