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RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR SUNDIAL AWARDS SCHEME 2005
1. OBJECTS
1.1 To encourage the making and commissioning of new dials
of good design and manufacture
1.2 To encourage good quality restoration of existing dials
2. CLASSES OF ENTRY
2.1 Entries should be made within one of the following four
classes:
a) PROFESSIONAL – dials commissioned by a client for payment from a designer who is
commercially engaged (partly or wholly) in the design and/or fabrication of dials. The award will be given to the
designer and not the client.
b) AMATEUR – dials designed and calibrated by a person or persons, either for
themselves, or as a gift or donation, but not for financial gain. Help may be obtained from suitable craftsmen
during fabrication. The award will go the designer(s).
c) RESTORATION – dials which are the result of restoration or repair of an earlier
dial. The award will go to the specifier(s) and supervisor(s) of the restoration work, who may or may not have
undertaken all the physical restoration.
d) JUNIOR – dials designed and calibrated by a person or group, all under the
age of twenty-one years. A major part of the fabrication of the dial must have been by the individual or group,
and the award will be to that individual or group.
2.2 Entries may be of any type (including portable dials, noon
marks, etc.)
2.3 All entries must be for dials fully completed.
2.4 Entrants are responsible for submitting their entries within
one of the four classes above.
2.5 Persons entering dials must draw the attention of owners
and designers of the dial to the Rules and Conditions. Submission of entries will be taken as acceptance of all
the Rules and Conditions by all concerned with the dial.
3. CONDITIONS FOR AND CONTENTS OF ENTRIES
3.1 Dials submitted for judging must have been made in the
UK not earlier than 1 January 2000, and entries submitted on or before 11 December 2004. Awards will be presented
in 2005.
3.2 Entries must be made on the official entry form. More than
one entry may be submitted by an entrant. Please use a separate form for each entry.
Each form must be accompanied by an entry fee of £30
for the first submission and £25 for each further submission except for junior entrants, when a fee of £15
should be sent for each entry.
3.3 Entries must be accompanied by:
a) 2 copies each of sufficient photographs to show the dial
face(s) and delineation and dial furniture, time marks, the support or plinths of the dial(s), the gnomon(s), and
for fixed dials, the surroundings of each dial. Dimensions of dials and gnomons should be given.
b) A brief account of the history of the dial, the design brief
and requirements, the actual design process, the required accuracy and how this was achieved, and fabrication and
installation methods. Persons carrying out the design, fabrication and installation should be identified.
c) Written or visual material (e.g. sketches, slides, videos
etc.) thought relevant to the criteria for judging.
d) Design calculations or other information may be called for
later by the judges, especially where accuracy of delineation cannot easily be verified on site.
e) Information on the geographical location of each dial.
f) A photograph of each face of each dial in its working position,
illuminated by sunlight only, showing any shadow(s) cast by a gnomon, style, nodus or other shadow former, or any
line, beam or spot of light formed on the face. The photograph should show the position of shadows or lights relative
to hour or other lines on the dial face in such a way as to allow an estimation of the accuracy of the time keeping
of the dial, given the resolution of the dial face and the angle of the camera relative to the face. The photograph
should identify the date and time of the exposusre, and the type and resolution of time-keeper used to record the
time.
The presentation of documentation will not be part of the judging
criteria. Each dial will be judged in accordance with Section 5 of the Rules.
4. JUDGES
4.1 The British Sundial Society will appoint a panel of judges.
Decisions of the judges will be final: no judge may make an entry to the Awards Scheme.
5. CRITERIA FOR JUDGING
5.1 Awards will be made after considering:
a) the accuracy and efficiency of the dial delineation and
face(s) appropriate to the design brief and the desired use and/or site
b) the suitability of the dial in its environment and for its
intended use.
c) the quality of the workmanship displayed by the dial
d) the overall aesthetic quality of the dial
e) the creativity of the overall concept of the dial in its
place and/or use
5.2 Restoration Class entries will also be judged on:
a) how the restored dial relates to and has maintained the
history, type, use and relation to the surroundings of the original dial
b) the quality of the restoration compared to the quality of
the original dial.
6. NATURE OF THE AWARDS
6.1 In classes (a), (b) and (c) where an award is made, the
award will consist of a monetary grant and a framed certificate. After full consideration of the entries, the judges
are not bound to give all or any of the awards.
6.2 One MAJOR AWARD may be made consisting of £500, a plaque commemorating the award to be affixed on
or near the dial and the framed certificate.
The MAJOR AWARD may be made in any class.
6.3 A total of up to six other awards may be made, each of
£150, distributed as decided by the judges in Classes (a) (b) and (c).
6.4 One Award may be made in Class (d). This can be awarded
to a group entry. The award will consist of the David Young cup, held for five years and a commemorative certificate.
7. ACCESS TO DIALS ENTERED FOR THE AWARDS SCHEME
7.1 Each dial entered must be available for inspection in place
by the judges. Inspection may occur more than once.
7.2 Dials where access cannot be granted to the judges will
not be considered for an award.
7.3 For any dial not accessible to the public and which can
therefore only be accessed through private property, the person(s) making the entry shall be responsible for making
arrangements for inspection by the judges, on request.
8. CONFIDENTIALITY OF LOCATION AND DOCUMENTS
8.1 Where a dial entered for an award is situated in or on
private property, the judges will keep the geographical location of the dial confidential during judging. This
confidentiality will continue at the award ceremony, if desired by the owner of the dial and agreed with the judges.
8.2 All documents, photographs etc. submitted with an entry
to the Award Scheme will become the property of BSS, which may use the material in articles, publications or other
forms of information issued by the Society, including the Register of Fixed Dials and the Bulletin.
8.3 For dials entered for an award but not open to public access,
and when agreed between the owner(s) of such dials and the Council of the Society, any publication of the Society,
shall not identify the geographical location of the dial in more detail than the name of the county in which it
exists.
8.4 The documents mentioned in 8.2 will be placed in the archive
of the Society, held in the Nottinghamshire Subscription Library.
9. ADMINISTRATION
9.1 The Award Scheme will be entirely administered by the BSS.
9.2 Entries should be sent to:
Mr R A Nicholls,
45 Hound Street,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3AB
Tel: 01935 812544
Entries should be clearly marked as AWARD SCHEME 2005 ENTRY on the outside.
9.3 Entries must be submitted on or before 11 December 2004:
any received after that date will not be considered and will be returned.
9.4 The BSS will not be responsible for any loss or delay to
entries before arrival. Acknowledgement of receipt will be sent for all entries
9.5 Awards will be decided before the AGM in 2005 (generally
late April or May), and presentations will be made at an Award Ceremony at the BSS Conference in 2005.
9.6 Awards will be announced:
a) to all persons submitting entries
b) in the Bulletin of the BSS (together with a list of entries)
c) to the architectural, property, building and horological
press
d) other forms of print and broadcasting media as appropriate
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