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 St Michael, Hawkshead |
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| sundial, Hawkshead | ||
| site name:- | St Michael and All Angels Church | |
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | SD35219810 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 BZI28.jpg (taken 20.9.2013)  BZI29.jpg (taken 20.9.2013) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH OF ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH / / / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76820 / SD3520898103" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Sundial. Plate dated 1693 (worn). Stone square step, hollow chamfered base and square shaft, chamfered with jewel stops. Moulded cap has metal plate, gnomon missing." |
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 BJV30.jpg A rhyme by Thomas Cowperthwaite, ironmonger, Hawkshead:- "True time I tell, the Sundial said, / When Sol his Ray sends from the Sky. / If he's abed, the Clock replied, / You cannot even Tell a Lie." (taken 16.9.2005) |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "Hawkshead / St. Michael's churchyard near lychgate / Corroded and thin plate" |
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| made 1693 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 1133 |
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