Sundials and Other Time Pieces

Sundial in foreground of the Garrison Church, Portsmouth, England, about 1865

 

Sundials have been made in an enormous variety of designs and materials, from large fixed instruments to small portable ones, over a long period of time.  In the course of my travels I have photographed a number of fixed sundials.  There is no particular rhyme or reason to the following photographs except that they might be of interest to visitors to my  web pages. - Julian Holland

 

Wall Dial, Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury, England.
Today there is a plain but functional tower clock in Shrewsbury

 

Lincoln's Inn, London, England

 

Dial on Church Wall
St Ives, Cornwall, England

Wall Dial, Greenwich Solar Time
Peebles, Scotland, 1877

 

Cassel, Germany, in the rain.

 

Slate dial on pillar, University College, Cork, Eire

 

Large Horizontal Dial at Bicentennial Park, Homebush, Sydney
near the site of the Sydney 2000 Olympics

 

Human Gnomon, Carter Observatory, Wellington, New Zealand
A person stands on the appropriate month on the analemmic scale on the ground

 

Columbia University, New York City, United States

 

Sundial at Adler Planetarium, Chicago

 

Public Clock, Kinsale, Eire
Showing time of high tide

 

 

Plaque commemorating the General Time Convention held in Chicago in 1883

 

Winged Hour-Glass
Detail from headstone, St Matthew's churchyard, Windsor, New South Wales

 

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