A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



indicating the d&g-msd point sun in E.S.E. Not one of the divisional lines 

 is quite accurate ; least so are those above the equinoctial.' 1 The side here 



shown was the one noticed by the 

 Rev. J.T. Fowler in 1 863. The other, 

 since brought to view, has eight con- 

 centric circles and the rune, in much 

 the same position. 



Hamster ley. In the 'church 

 there is a circle with a central hole, 

 but no hour lines.' * 



Hart. A fine example is here 

 built into the west wall of the nave. 

 It is cut on a slab i foot 6 inches by 



SUNDIAL AT DARLINGTON. X ' inches \ a11 the lines are raised in 



semi-circular section, f of an inch 



high, and divide the semicircle into eight parts. The hole for the gnomon 

 remains. There are no distinguishing marks on the dividing lines. 



Middleton St. George. An early dial is here built into the south wall of 

 the Early English church. 



Pittington. The dial here figured is at Pittington Hallgarth. It is 

 manifestly of an early date, and is thus described by Dr. Haigh :* ' It exhibits 

 six divisions of day time. It will be 

 observed that the mid-day line has a 

 cross-bar ; that each of the lines be- 

 tween it and the equinoctial has a dot 

 at about two-thirds of its length ; and 

 that those and the mid-day line have 

 each a little square at its extremity. 

 This is a very remarkable feature. I 

 think it will be admitted that we have 

 here a reminiscence of a fashion of 

 dialling (of which the Wallsend example 

 is a relic) in which the trine marks were blocks of stone arranged in a circle 

 round the gnomon.' 



Staindrop. In the wall to the north of and above the chancel arch is 

 rather more than half of an early dial. It is upside down. The semicircle 

 is divided into four, and is circumscribed by a raised bead. Curiously, the 

 field is not left flat, but is worked with a rise towards the gnomon, the hole 

 for which remains.* 



1 The Book of Sundials (enlarged ed. Eden and Lloyd, 1900), 53 ; York. Arch. 3 turn. v. 154. 



* Book of Sundials, op. cit. p. 53. 



8 Ibid. 206-7. PI. iii. at p. 144 ; Irani. Dur. Northumb. Arch. Soc. iii. 29. 



* Rev. H. C. Lipscomb, StainJrop Church and Monument!, PI. opp. p. 3 ; Rev. J. F. Hodgson, in Tram. 

 Dur. Northumb. Arch. Soc. iii. 76 n. 



SUNDIAL AT PITTINCTON. 



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