Sundial About 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Sundial.
Sundial About 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- twisted-span-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Sundial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 813 409
- Coordinates
- 51.13875, 0.59062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This sundial, located about 30 metres south of the Church of St Mary, was made in 1847 by Watkins and Hill from Charing Cross, London. It is constructed from stone and features a bronze dial and gnomen. The sundial has an octagonal base and a square stem with clustered nook shafts that transition the shape to a clover-leaf design. This design is made up of four capital-shaped heads that support the clover-leaf shaped dial, which has a simple gnomen. The dial plate is inscribed with a fleur-de-lys and the makers' names, while the crown of the stem bears the inscription "Time passeth away like a shadow Man is like a thing of nought."
Local climate
Sundial About 30 Metres South of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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