Essex Sundials

Welcome to Essex and a booklet that gives a selection of sundials from throughout the county. Many sundials are located on churches but some are in other locations such as in town squares or even in the middle of a roundabout. A variety of sundial types are included from the ancient scratch or mass dials to horizontal dials, vertical dials, analemmatic dials and armillary sphere dials. Included with the vertical dials are those that are direct (usually facing due south) and declining (usually facing either east or west of south) and unusually two are made from stained glass. There is a large sundial age range from the scratch dials, vertical dials almost 350 years old to more modern sundials made in the last few years.