The Highworth Wiltshire Dial
Hello Stained Glass and Sundial people: We've made real good progress in identifying the locations of the lost (to us) English stained glass sundials. There is only one known English dial left for us to locate. Hans Behrendt called it "The Highworth Wiltshire Dial". Since he made a movie of it at its original location in the 1980s, it's probably still there. All we know is that it was made in 1641 and that it's in some unknown building in Highworth Wiltshire England. You can see our poor photograph that I copied from Behrendt's videotape if you go to the SGS website Image Archive at: http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials_SGS1.html and scroll way down to Dial 149 in the left column. Is this SG window in the British Sundial Society registry? Has anybody heard of it or knows where it is located? John p.s. there are still a couple of other unlocated and unidentified English stained glass dials that were on the last Behrendt video, but of the twenty unidentified dials there, we can't tell which ones are English until we translate the videotape. Hopefully we'll be able to identify those soon. You can see these poor photos of the unidentified dials at: http://www.advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials_SGS2_test.html according to Behrendt's video index, these are a mixture of German, Swiss, English and American sundials, but we don't know which are which! (We think though that all those table-top ones with the heraldic shields are German) John -
Re: The Merton Church Dial
Further to my earlier message, I've found that the Merton dial is already in the BSS Register 2000, where it has SrNo 2296. So it wasn't "lost" at all! It was reported in 1994 (by Chris Daniel) so it is probably time someone checked it again. Regards, John - Dr J R DavisFlowton DialsN52d 08m: E1d 05m
Re: The Merton Church Dial
Merton (near Watton, Norfolk) isn't too far from me so I'll try to get along there. Churches are often locked these days so I will try to make a contact first. Watch this space.. Regards, John -John Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Boy am I having a good day! I think I've just found the lost Merton Church stained glass sundial that was also in the Behrendt Videotapes and article. It's located at St. Peter's Church in Merton, Norfolk England. I saw this website ( http://www.wayland.org.uk/site/site/Merton/church ) and buried in the website text is this sentence: "A curiosity will be found in a south aisle window. It is a representation in stained glass of the passing hours with a Latin tag, suggesting that "while we talk time flies", and in the corner a spider is busy catching a fly." In Behrendt's article he says that it's latin motto says ""dum loquimur fugit hors" , and I'm pretty sure this translates into "while we talk time flies". So that proves it. It is the missing Merton Church Dial! Even in our horrible photograph you can see that it's quite beautiful. I'm hinting that we need better photos of this one too. Do any of you live in Norfolk? (By the way, I'm confused if Merton is the town or if Wayland is the town in Norfolk.)Dr J R DavisFlowton DialsN52d 08m: E1d 05m
