sundial tower
A tapering tower of ochre stone twenty-seven metres high, square at the base and knife-edged at the top, built for one purpose: to cast the shadow by which Gnomon tells the time. Around its foot the paving is inlaid with brass hour-lines and the dates of the year, and at the top a bronze bell hangs in an open cage. At noon the tower's shadow shrinks to nothing under its own base, the keeper rings once, and the Four Minutes begin. The Bureau's instruments stand on the third gallery, and have meas...
Located in The Ledger of Shadows.