Pictures from our Exhibition:
Formwork in place for casting the concrete for the stub.
The stub column once cast, with the first stone course set.
The first courses of stone set out and assembled.
The pedestal and plinth courses being erected.
The stone blocks being positioned to build the seat.
Fitting the seat top to the plinth.
Top of the shaft stone.
The base of the pillar in place upon the plinth.
The shaft stone being raised into its final position.
The shaft stone in position: note the central tension rod.
The capital seen from below, showing the top of the column shaft with its Doric decorative egg and dart carving.
Top of dialstone, ready for vase.
Vase stone lowered into place.
Architect AD Mason and astronomer Gordon Taylor supervised the positioning over three days.
The dialstone finally set in place on the vase stone and Gnomons installed.
Carver and gilder Caroline Webb puts the finishing touches to the dial faces in situ, forty feet up.
Obelisk stone being positioned by hand.
Orb being fitted onto rebate cut into the stone.
Lead work being finished in situ.
All six faces accurate to within ten seconds, a triumph for all involved.