Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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 St Mary, High Hesket |
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| sundial, High Hesket | ||
| site name:- | St Mary's Church | |
| locality:- | High Hesket | |
| civil parish:- | Hesket (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | NY47594445 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4744 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY44 | |
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 BTM87.jpg (taken 3.9.2010) |
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| The old sundial was too far gone to be repaired, so a replacement has been made. |
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| "Time is on the wing And the moments of life Are too precious to be Squandered away in trifles" |
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| "Oh what is human life? How like this tardy dial's moving shade! Day after day slides from us unperceived! Yea, soon man's hour is up - and we are gone" |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "High Hesket / Stored in church porch / Two mottoes on plaques" |
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| made 1719 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 1006 |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "High Hesket / Replacement for the above / Two mottoes on plaques" |
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| made 2005 |
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