Monument record 200/2/6 - Sundial at rear of Crewe Hall

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1330083 (Report). SCH1934.

Sundial early C19. Of stone, iron and bronze. Cavetto moulded triangular stone base with slightly concave sides supporting three inverted consoles with bearded heads in the internal angles. The brackets enclose a cluster of leaves from which rises a tapering twisted column with small spheres set in the flutings. This supports a Corinthian cap on which stands a shaped iron stem holding three large bronze angled rings also two smaller cross-braced rings at either end of a slender rod.

<2> Liverpool Museum Field Archaeology Unit, 2000, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of the Proposed A534 Crewe Green Link Road, R2323 (Client Report). SCH4263.

Sundial, early C19. Of stone, iron and bronze.