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vertical
This is the most common shape of a sundial. It has been created on a vertical horizontal plane. The plane is usually facing south, but can also be facing other directions. The stylus is parallel to the earth axis.
26 Jui 2009
Place Richelme
Nicely restored sundial dated 1845. It combines a noon-alemna with a simple vertical dial.
| Longitude | Latitude | ||
| 5.450276 | 43.530423 |
26 Jui 2009
Place des Precheurs
A simple sundial in stone with hour- and halfhour lines. Looks like it is put up in 1825.
| Location | Longitude | Latitude | |
| Northside, Place des Precheurs, Aix-en-Provence, France | 5.450276 | 43.530423 |
04 Mai 2008
Chartreuse - South
The south-facing sundial. The dial shows hourlines from 7 to 6 pm. It has also shortened half-hour markers. The hourlines emanate from a moon circle.
The decoration seems a bit baroque.
The dial face has a motto “Nos Jours Secoulent Com…” The rest is no longer readable.
The dial has been restored in 1988 by Atelier Tournesol.
| Location | Longitude | Latitude | |
| Colonie de Vacances, Chartreuse, St. Julien en Beauchêne, Hautes-Alpes, France | 5.753 | 44.6325 |
04 Mai 2008
Chartreuse - Ouest
This is an west-facing sundial. It shows hour and half-hour lines from 2:30 to 6:30 pm, although from the gnomon you can see that it indicates already much earlier.
Unfortunately the dial face is broken by a new building addition.
| Longitude | Latitude | ||
| 5.753 | 44.6330 |
04 Mai 2008
MF des Etroits
This sundial can be found on a building next to the Maison Forestiere.
It is a simple dial showing hourlines from 7 to 4. The hourlines are difficult to see and only the hour markers can be seen. The gnomon seems a bit bent.
Unfortunately there is a ghost shadow on the dial face due to an electricity post.
| Location | Longitude | Latitude | |
| Maison Forestière des Etroits, St. Julien en Beauchêne, Hautes-Alpes, PACA, France | 5.7244 | 44.6297 |
19 Avr 2008
La Germanette
This sundial can be found on the bar/restaurant at La Germanette, the public open swimming pool in Serres. The dial had hourlines from 6 to 6. Is this for real, it seems very symmetric. And at the top a boat, which relates to the pool.
| Location | Longitude | Latitude | |
| Bar, La Germanette, Serres, PACA, France | 5.724391 | 44.407481 |
19 Avr 2008
Entrevaux remnant
A sundial that is partially gone, only the gnomon is left. I guess this was an more elaborate dial, as the gnomon has a declination hole.
| Location | Longitude | Latitude | |
| Rue de l'eglise, Entrevaux, Alpes de Haute Provence, PACA, France | 6.812317 | 43.950478 |
18 Avr 2008
Castellane - Office de Tourisme
This sundial can be found in Castellane above the Office de Tourisme Building. This building can be found on the main road through town (the Route Napoleon), just north of the main plaza. It is on corner of Boulevard Saint Michel and rue National.
The dial is pretty recent, from 2007. The sundial face itself is simple, just some hourlines from 8 am to 6 pm. Below are the 7 shields, which I assume correspond to the surrounding villages. Below that is a motto ‘Lou souleu es jamai tant bèu, qu’un jour mounte s’encaminan’. I guess this is in provençal, which I would translate to ‘the sun is never more beautiful than when it rises during a walk’.
Below and above the dial are to images, which I gues refer to war and peace.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Corner Boulevard Saint Michel and rue National, Castellane, PACA, France | 6.511909 | 43.847813 |
23 Sep 2007
Les Thuiles
This sundial is fairly straightforward. It has only hourlines indicated by roman numerals. The motto reads “je passe et je reviens, tu passe & ne reviens pas”, translates as ‘I come and return, you come and do not return’. The dial was created in 1881 and was restored in 1996 by JFG.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Church, Les Thuiles, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France | 6.566262245178223 | 44.39392889492094 |
21 Sep 2007
Westminster church
A set of two sundials on the Westminster Church. The dials are pretty high up. The designs are very simple. Interestingly one dial face is oriented to the north and thus the gnomon is oriented from the bottom up outwards. First time I saw such a dial.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Westminster Church, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK | -0.12707769870758057 | 51.49999065472663 |
17 Sep 2006
Chateau, Aspres-sur-Buech
This sundial can be found above the entrance of the old chateau in Aspres-sur-Buëch. Currently this buiding hosts a bread&breakfast.
The dial shows hour and half-hour lines from 5:30 to 4:30. The hourlines start in a classic moon around the gnomon. Below the dial proper there is a drawer of a woman sitting on the ground with a child and pidgeon.
The motto reads “une parole vaut mieux qu’un ecrite”, a word is worth more than a letter”.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Aspres-sur-Buech, Hautes-Alpes, France | 5.752318 | 44.522345 |
17 Sep 2006
Manteyer
This sundial is hidden in the garden of a large mansion. I could not get a good look. It seems to have only some hourlines.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Manteyer, Hautes-Alpes, France | 5.967255 | 44.539431 |
15 Jui 2006
Number 16, Main Street, Sainte Blaise
This dial is not in a very good shape. In the upper left corner I can discern an 18?1.
One can see hour and halfhour lines starting at 5 am to probably 2 pm. One can only discern the 5.
The seems to have been a motto at the bottom, but it is now unreadable.
The dial reminds of the designs of Zarbula: trompe l’oeil setting, gnomon in a sun and below it a moon. Also the colouring seems to remind of him.
| Album | Longitude | Latitude | |
| 6.613310 | 44.87562 |
15 Jui 2006
Destroyed Chamandrin
Of this dial not much is left. One sees some hourlines and the gnomon is still there. But the people in the house put a window straight through the sundial. The end the the hourlines are fitted in a round circle, suggesting that the dial was fairly modern.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Main Street, Chamandrin, Hautes-Alpes, France | 6.618315 | 44.880539 |
15 Jui 2006
Eglise, Villard St. Pancrace
This dial is on the main church in Villard St. Pancrace. On the dial one can see the date MVIIICXXI, 1821, which is a very strange way to write roman dates.
The dial shows hourlines and half hour lines (as arrows) from 8 am to 6 pm.
The dial has multiple motto’s. At the top it says in latin “vulnerant omnes, ultima necat morte tua”, “bless all, the last one kills you”. In the dial face one can see another motto, but it is fragmented to “hic umbra ....”
The dial is in Louis XV style. The stylus is set in a classic sun and moon.
It has been restored in 1984 by le Club du Vieux Manoir, but seems to be deteriorating since.
| Album | Location | Longitude | Latitude |
| Church, Villard St. Pancrace, Hautes-Alpes, France | 6.627468 | 44.873783 |