Mass dial, St John's Church, Devizes
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Mass dial, St John's Church, Devizes
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 30 Apr 2011
Mass dials or scratch dials are a sort of mediaeval sundial and were placed on the south elevation of churches to give some idea of when the next church service was to be held. I've seen a few of them http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=21176637 but this is the first I've encountered still with its indicator in place. This image was obtained at 13.18 BST.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.349878
Longitude
-1.995643