The Fleet Street Heritage
Sundial
www.fleetstreetheritagesundial.uk
The sundial was completed in October 2021, and is the largest vertical
sundial in the UK<
OPEN
HOUSE 2023
Iconic 10 m. sq. heritage sundial & 24 Fleet Street Heritage
Information panels
open from 8 am Thursday 14th Sept to 6 pm 17th Sept
Talks programme at the sundial - EC4Y 1JU
Sundials Q & A: 8,9, and 10 am ---- Heritage Q & A: 11, 12 and 1
pm
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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
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
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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
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The other sundials in central London designed by
Piers Nicholson are shown on our designer
page
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