The Fleet Street Heritage
sundial project
www.fleetstreetheritagesundial.uk
The sundial is now completed
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The sundial is included in Open House
London from 8 to 24 September 2022 . See the schedule for map and up-to date informarion |
Listen to the podcast on the creation of this huge sundial artwork.
See the Lady Mayoress opening
the sundial on 21st October 2021
Please download the booklet distributed at the
opening.
Read the 3 British Sundial Society articles A,B
and C
The sundial is the first stage of the Fleet
Street Heritage project
which will bring together scattered information about the heritage of
Fleet Street and
its newspapers as information panels and web pages so that they may be
found more easily
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For a full explanation of the Equation of Time, go to sundials,co.uk
For tables showing the Standard Time Correction and the time of solar
noon in central London for every day of the year, please go to the printouts
from solar-noon.com
Click the image, or go to the Sundial Plaques
page, to view enlarged images of the 3 plaques under the sundial at eye
level
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The painting of the sundial is now complete. See pictures here.
Also see the videos 1 (1m32s) and 2 (9m26s) of Steven Whitaker painting the N of the News Chronicle and videos 1 (3m15s) and 2 (8m36s) of painting the Royal Coat of Arms
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The wall at the junction
of Fleet Street and Bouverie Street - see map
The sundial will be placed on the top two-thirds of the wall, and there will be three information plaques at eye level The sundial is the centrepiece of the Fleet Street Heritage project which aims to make this rich heritage easily available to all |
The sundial design
with the mastheads of five past newspapers
The planners do not allow current newspaper mastheads The blue line shows the gnomon which casts the shadow. The sundial faces East, so it only gets sunshine in the morning The wall has a step, so the hour lines are not quite continuous |
The other sundials in central London designed by
Piers Nicholson are shown on our designer
page