The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 126
original colour can be faintly seen under a modern coatingof drab paint. RENAISSANCE DIALS, DETACHED 97 The dial has, fortunatel), only been repaired so far as to fastensecurely a top stone, which was formerly movable, and covered a con-cave dial. The whole block is 5 feet 10 inches in height, and3… … <■., UPTON, NORTH.ANfS. overgrown with lichen, but it is not many years since the numeralscould be distinguished. Not far off from this fine old dial-stone is thestem of a mulberry tree, said to have been planted in Queen Elizabethstime, and near it are the remains of the old terraces of the…
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