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 298
ide has two carved serpents starting with their intertwistedtails and wriggling round the sides of the hollow, the upper edge ofwhich forms the style. The dial and pedestal are cut out of one stone.( Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, by Ross andMacgibbon, vol. v., p. 430.) „ iiORA… … SUN-DIAL MOTTOES 263 334. FuGiT HORA, ORA. The hour flies, pi-ay. On a circular dial in a square slab of stone, which stood over theporch entrance of Catterick Church, Yorkshire. The face was paintedblue, the lettering gilt, and the gnomon sprangfrom a golden sun which was immediately be-low the…
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