Dial of the Month - November 2009

 

 


 

 

SRN 6851 Westmill (detail)

 

SRN 6851 Westmill (context)

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SRN 6851 (Vertical, Westmill, Herts.)


 

An unusually good vertical dial for a domestic setting.  It is mounted in the gable end of the house above a first floor window, visible from the village green of Westmill in Hertfordshire.   The east side is canted out on a moulded shelf, and a small gable roof gives some protection from the elements.  The rectangular dial plate has an upper pediment enclosing a winged hourglass.  The dial itself is oval in shape with winged cherub heads in the four spandrels.  Above the gnomon is 'DVM SPECTAS FVGIO', and the date MDDCCXCIII.