Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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 St Nicholas, Lazonby |
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| sundial, Lazonby | ||
| site name:- | St Nicholas's Church | |
| locality:- | Lazonby | |
| civil parish:- | Lazonby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | NY549395 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5439 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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 BSC30.jpg Head of sundial resting by church porch; there are remains of gnomons on E, S and W faces. (taken 5.2.2010)  CAV94.jpg (taken 6.6.2014) |
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| Beware: a local leaflet describes this as a 'cross dial', which it isn't. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Calverley 1899 item:- sundial |
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| source data:- | Book, Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present
Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published
for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus
Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899. Lying in the churchyard:- An old dismounted cube dial ... |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "Lazonby / Church. At right foot of main door / ?originally H dial on top" |
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| made 1700 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 2045 |
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| "Lazonby / Resting on top of [the above]? integral / Classic pattern" |
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| made 1700 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 2046 |
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