. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . 228 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday nor would I wish a floral ornamentation on thedial-plate and the signs of the zodiac on the ped-estal. Very rarely an old gnomon will show some curi-ous design. On page 227 is pictured the gnomonof a vertical dial at Lelant Church, Cornwall; it is the figure of a skeletonstanding on a hori-zontal bar. This ispierced in such away that his ribs,skull, dart, andhour-glass areplainly seen. Thisemblem of Death,a skeleton, was heldto
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . 228 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday nor would I wish a floral ornamentation on thedial-plate and the signs of the zodiac on the ped-estal. Very rarely an old gnomon will show some curi-ous design. On page 227 is pictured the gnomonof a vertical dial at Lelant Church, Cornwall; it is the figure of a skeletonstanding on a hori-zontal bar. This ispierced in such away that his ribs,skull, dart, andhour-glass areplainly seen. Thisemblem of Death,a skeleton, was heldto be as suitable toa sun-dial as to atombstone; andsometimes the dialbore a carving ofskull and is shown onthis page, also page230. I have seena mounted globe serving as a gnomon. An ele-phants trunk and the wing of a bird have furnisheddesigns for gnomons. A very fine gnomon, shapedlike a dragon, is upon a dial made in London for anAmerican garden. It is shown in this book. A very curious gnomon and a very curious dialwas that of the Church of Brou in the Savoy Dial-face, Sneepstor Church, Dartmoor. Pedestals and Gnomons 229 It is said it was made for the use of the workmenof many lands who built the church. ** Stones are sawing, hammers the work the bright sun the Savoy the stream below the pines. « On her palfry white the Duchess Sate, and watched her working trainj,Flemish carvers, Lombard gilders, German masons, smiths from Spain, thus wrote Matthew Arnold in his poem, TheChurch of Brou. This sun-dial was a great circleon the pavement, thirty-three feet in diameter; andthe hours were marked in bricks. The time-seekerhimself, were he Flemish carver or smith from Spain,formed the gnomon. He placed himself on the spotmarked with the name of the current month and hisshadow fell on the correct hour. A very elaborateand exact dial was made in Dijon about a hundredyears ago by one M. Caumont. Four great blocksof stone mar
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