Sundial in Inner Courtyard at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1987. Sundial.

Sundial in Inner Courtyard at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes

WRENN ID
graven-lintel-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1987
Type
Sundial
Address
Sundial in Inner Courtyard at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes, Front Street, Churchill, BS25 5NE
OS grid reference
ST 440 598
Coordinates
51.3351, -2.80487
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sundial located in the inner courtyard at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes is a Grade II listed structure, dated 1907. It was created by Silcock and Reay. The sundial features a square brick base with a limestone mid course and cornice. The stone shaft rises to a height of 4.5 metres and develops from four consoles. It has a hexagonal shaft topped with a square sundial and a ball finial. The sundial faces are adorned with bronze plates, and the base includes additional bronze plates inscribed with the words: "With Warning Hand I Mark Time's Rapid Flight/From Life's Clad Morning To Its Solemn Night/Yet Through The Dear God's Love I Also Show/There's Light Above Me By The Shade Below." This sundial was erected at the expense of Sidney Hill of Langford House.

Local climate

Sundial in Inner Courtyard at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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