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A giant cliff top sundial telling Cornish time was the major millennium project for Perranzabuloe. The council constructed a circle of standing stones; each marked with an hour. Stuart Thorn the designer from Perranporth has designed a stainless steel gnomon to cast shadows onto the stone clockface. The stones are aligned so they show the Cornish Time rather than Greenwich Mean Time. When the sun is at its highest point, the North pointing gnomon will cast a shadow directly North onto the midday stone; in London it would happen approximately 20 minutes earlier. |
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The site formerly part of Droskyn Mine is below Droskyn car park on the grassy cliff top alongside the beach path. The whole area has been landscaped using granite, cobbles and grass. Stone seating has been incorporated into the design. The tall standing stones were recovered by the Parish Council when workmen excavated the road bridge over the river in Perranporth town centre. |
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Mr Thorn wanted people to be aware of their whereabouts and has a granite lectern above the site, to explain that to the North of the Sundial is thought to be the landing place of St.Piran and up into the sand dunes the sites of St. Piran's Oratory, the Lost Church and St. Piran's Cross. |
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