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 St Nicholas, Lazonby
sundial, Lazonby
site name:-   St Nicholas's Church
locality:-   Lazonby
civil parish:-   Lazonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sundial
coordinates:-   NY549395
1Km square:-   NY5439
10Km square:-   NY53


photograph
BSC30.jpg  Head of sundial resting by church porch; there are remains of gnomons on E, S and W faces.
(taken 5.2.2010)  
photograph
CAV94.jpg (taken 6.6.2014)  
Beware: a local leaflet describes this as a 'cross dial', which it isn't.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Calverley 1899
item:-  sundial
source data:-   Book, Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899.
Lying in the churchyard:- 
An old dismounted cube dial ... 

notes:-  
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:-
"Lazonby / Church. At right foot of main door / ?originally H dial on top"
made 1700
British Sundial Society reference number 2045
"Lazonby / Resting on top of [the above]? integral / Classic pattern"
made 1700
British Sundial Society reference number 2046

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