Sundials of North America

This is a listing of sundials in the North American Sundial Society Registry. The ordering can be changed using the box above. Or you can search for a dial by number, city, state/province, or type. You can also find sundials in a particular state/province by clicking on the right-column list of state/province names.

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	Asheville	North Carolina	USA	Analemmatic Dial	731
	A 16 foot major axis analemmatic dial with stained concrete, hand painted date line. Hemlock branch hour posts were cut by Estate foresters and use iron numerals hand-forged by the Estate blacksmith. The Biltmore Estate was constructed by George Washington Vanderbilt II from 1889 to 1895 and is the largest privately owned home in the United Stat...
	Burnsville	North Carolina	USA	Vertical Dial	676
	The Quilt Block Sundial, an 8x8 foot painted wood nearly-south facing vertical dial with a steel gnomon rod. Dial face consists of a bold quilt block pattern and includes Arabic hour numerals for local solar time, EST and EDT. Hour lines are corrected for longitude and EOT correction is provided by the profile of purple hills along the bottom of th...
	Chapel Hill	North Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	101
	A 35 foot diameter horizontal dial of terrazzo with inset bronze hour lines and Roman hour numerals. The bronze gnomon edge is 24 feet long and at the tip stands 14 feet tall. In the base of the gnomon is a circular opening, holding a large inset bronze hour glass. In the terrazzo at the dial center is an inset bronze sun graphic with wavy spicule...
	Durham	North Carolina	USA	Noon Mark or Meridian Dial	356
	Called "Gnomon", this large sculpture consisting of two monoliths made of steel-reinforced concrete slabs laid nearly next to each other along one edge. This produces a thin slit between them,with both leaning against a third slab. If one could look down on this from an airplane, it appears as an arrowhead pointing south. At local noon, sunlight pa...
	Gastonia	North Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	649
	A 56 inch horizontal dial of stone masonry with wrought iron gnomon. Dial center filled with crushed rock with Roman numerals on perimeter stones. Dial is longitude corrected to EST and the EOT correction is shown on an adjacent landscape stone. Dial is on private property but can be seen from the public street. For closer viewing, contact owner.
	Kannapolis	North Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	703
	A large horizontal cast concrete dial on a brick patio. Dial face includes hour lines and Roman numerals. Dial is dedicated as a tribute to the men and women of Kannapolis who died while serving in the US armed forces.
	Mars Hill	North Carolina	USA	Armillary Sphere	1133
	This simple stainless steel armillary is called the "TimeKeeper Sundial" is approximately 20 inches (51cm) in diameter with meridian circle and equatorial timekeeping circle. The gnomon is a classic arrow rod. The hexagon stainless steel pedestal has six medallions at the top with medial motifs. From an article in the Citizen-Times (see link),...
	Marshall	North Carolina	USA	Armillary Sphere	642
	An armillary steel ring equatorial dial approximately 4 feet diameter. Hour ring has Roman numerals cut through the ring to show EST. Mounted on a concrete pedestal marked with city name and builder's mark. The pedestal is also marked with Marshall town map coordinates 35.79° N, 82.68° W, which are not the precise coordinates of the dial. Weather...
	Raleigh	North Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	864
	Known as the Primrose Sundial, the bronze dial plate is a little more than a foot in diameter and sits on a small stone pillar about four feet high. The dial has simple hour lines from 4am to 8pm marked on the hour in Roman numerals. The open bronze gnomon is about 1/2 inch thick, held by both tenon and two large screws. In December 2010, the ...
	Waynesville	North Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	1116
	This is a large horizontal sundial 5-feet (1.5m) in diameter with a twist. The dial is made of aluminum and set on a circular concrete dais several inches above ground level. Hour lines of thin aluminum rods extend from 9am to 3pm using Roman numerals. The gnomon is a braced aluminum rod that creates a sleek, modern looking sundial. But the twis...
	Wilmington	North Carolina	USA	Equatorial Dial	852
	This is a bronze hemispherical equatorial sundial approximately 30 inches in diameter. The wide equatorial band is delineated every quarter hour and has cast Arabic numerals as hour markers from 6am to 6pm. The meridian band is inscribed with markers for the solstices and cross-quarter days. The sundial was a gift from the Reda Family to the Dep...
	Winston-Salem	North Carolina	USA	Analemmatic Dial	709
	A 23.5 foot major axis analemmatic dial with a 10 foot tall movable steel vertical gnomon. Hours are marked by numerals on solar-powered lamps on the ellipse at the perimeter bush line. The concrete dial face consists of an 8 foot dais that displays the EOT and hosts a handsome gargoyle. This private dial is available for viewing by contacting the...