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SRN 0376 (Vertical, Harburton, Devon) |
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A fine dial on the church at Harberton, Devon. The date of 1855 can be read in the pierced gnomon support. John Lester says in his edition of Mrs Crowley's Sundial Sketchbooks: "Mrs Crowley dismisses [this dial] as 'complicated and uninteresting'. It is neither. The declining dial is framed by a stone arch topped by an eroded fleur-de-lys. Across the top is the partly obliterated motto, 'Work while ye have the light. The night cometh when no man can work'. There are symbols representing the earth, sun and moon. The hours are divided into quarters and further subdivided by the zig-zag dotted lines called transversals which enable the time to be read to the minute. These are seldom found on vertical dials and not all that often anywhere else."
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