Sundial - St Newlyna - St Newlyn East, Cornwall - Sundials on Waymarking.com

Sundial mounted above the entrance on the south porch of St Newlyna's church, St Newlyn East.

"When B. Nancarrow made this dial on the church porch he was careful to add the Latitude as 50° 23' and tell us that it declined East by 11° 10' which is all pretty accurate. At the top he carved the dismal motto : “Ye know not the hour”, but surprisingly he didn’t tell us the date when the dial was made. Mrs Gatty says that it was prior to 1846 and it replaced an earlier slate dial which was broken. This seems unlikely since Nancarrow made the dial at St. Enoder in 1766 and this dial looks as if it belonged to that period too. Mrs Crowley suggested that the gnomon was a wooden one but the present gnomon is certainly iron."

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