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“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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Horizontal Dials

horizontal-topCatching the eye, creating a focal point and meeting place, our horizontal sundials captivate the curious mind and turn sunlight into moments in time.

Our flat garden sundials are craftsman made to commission from the highest quality marine grade Italian brass or luscious bronze. The metal is thick and heavy; brass has a beautiful soft golden glow that weathers very slowly to a mellow brown finish, while bronze comes ready verdigrised.

Our hand made horizontal sundials make wonderful, personalised gifts, for all kinds of occasions and special events. There are five different designs to choose from, each with space for your dedication, motto or dates.

Our topograph design points to special places to bring memories of travels or distant relatives to mind, making the perfect family gift for grandparents or a lovely wedding present for well-travelled couples. And there’s no need to wait for a big birthday or special anniversary to buy a sundial, why not give one to your garden and make it happy!

As every dial is made to commission, you can be sure your sundial will be unique. Our dials each come in a range of sizes and metals, and the designs take different numbers of words; see our information on engraving for details. Our horizontal garden sundials need to be mounted on a plinth to show them off to best effect, you can see all our plinths here. For inspiration on words and mottoes we’ve put a list of our favourites together to help you.

Your garden, or the garden receiving your gift, will look magnificent with one of these beautiful hand crafted dials. If you would like to buy one of these handsome dials, please make an enquiry  and we’ll get in touch to make sure we get all the details we need to make your unique sundial.

We aim to dispatch every brass sundial with 5-7 days, although we can do a 2 day delivery if you need the dial urgently. Bronze dials take about 2 weeks.

Our different sundial designs are shown below. Or take a look at our horizontal sundials gallery for more inspiration.

  • Classic Horizontal Dial

    £139.00 – £699.00
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  • The Equation of Time corrects clock time to solar time

    Kepler Horizontal Dial

    £149.00 – £715.00
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  • Nautical Horizontal Dial

    £139.00 – £699.00
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  • Roman Horizontal Dial

    £139.00 – £699.00
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  • Topograph Design Horizontal Dial

    £495.00 – £803.00
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Equation of Time

Today your sundial will appear to be running 2 minutes and 12 seconds fast against GMT. (Please add an extra hour for British Summer Time.)

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Testimonials

Lovely item. I asked for the wording to be arranged slightly differently and there was no issues. Thanks
Sundial is beautiful
Bought this for my husbands birthday and he was delighted with it. Great communication with seller and fast delivery
A special personalised wedding gift exactly as portrayed in the picture – a great success
Kepler was excellent, delivered within a few days of ordering and looks fantastic!
Thank you it was as described and just what I expected, posted and delivered promptly
Received the sundial in the week, just to say a massive thank you for an excellent product. It is of great quality, really well engraved and will be a fantastic gift to present to our colleague on his retirement. Cannot fault the service you provided. I am sure I will be in touch again for a similar item.I would recommend your services to anyone.
Very pleased with the engraving as it is to be a special gift and it looks lovely
This is a Christmas gift not yet given but I love it its beautiful
Beautiful sundial, lovely quality, well-packaged, very pleased with purchase!

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Border Sundials
Chapel Farm
Clytha
Abergavenny
NP7 9BW

T: 01873 840 297
E: office@bordersundials.co.uk

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