Sundials by Robert Foster Commission a dial

Visit the workshop

The sundials are made and shown at Maw's Craft Centre in Jackfield, in the Ironbridge Gorge. You are welcome to come and look at the range, pick a dial up, and talk through what you have in mind.

When planning a visit, please phone to make sure someone is on hand.

The workshop and showroom number is 01952 884057.

A brass horizontal dial plate on a weathered stone pedestal, its pierced and scrolled gnomon standing above the engraved Roman numerals.
A dial on show at the craft centre. Most of the range can be seen and handled there.
Where
Sundials
Maw's Craft Centre
Jackfield, Nr Ironbridge
Telford TF8 7LS
Workshop and showroom
01952 884057 The number to ring before you visit
Office, phone and fax
01746 783714 Orders and enquiries
Email
robert@sundialsbyrobertfoster.co.uk Card details are taken by telephone, never by email

Finding Maw's Craft Centre

Get directions

Sundials, Maw's Craft Centre, Jackfield, Nr Ironbridge, Telford TF8 7LS. From the M54, leave at Junction 4 and take the A442 to Ironbridge, where Maw's Craft Centre is signed. You can open the location in Google Maps or get directions.

From the M54, leave at Junction 4 and take the A442 towards Ironbridge, where Maw's Craft Centre is signed. The craft centre sits on the Jackfield side of the river, a few minutes downstream of the Iron Bridge itself.

There is a printable sheet of the whole Gorge, with the craft centre marked and the same directions from the motorway on it, if you would rather have it on paper.

Map of the Gorge (PDF) Ring the workshop
Robert's own printed map of the Ironbridge Gorge, showing the Iron Bridge, Jackfield Bridge, Blists Hill and Maw's Craft Centre beside the River Severn.
Robert's own printed map of the Gorge. The full sheet is below.
Inside the workshop, an armillary sphere held up at the bench, with finished armillaries and a row of stone pedestals standing around it.
The workshop and the showroom are the same address.

Ordering a sundial

Every one of these routes is open, and none of them is preferred. Robert has taken orders by telephone and by post for years and still does.

By telephone

01746 783714 reaches the office, by phone or fax.

01952 884057 reaches the workshop and showroom.

Card details are taken over the telephone.

By email

Write to robert@sundialsbyrobertfoster.co.uk with the piece, the size and anything you would like engraved.

Please telephone card details rather than sending them by email.

By post

Sundials, Maw's Craft Centre, Jackfield, Telford TF8 7LS.

There is an order form to print out, with the item and price lines already laid out. Please make cheques payable to SUNDIALS.

Order form (PDF)

In person

Come to the showroom at Maw's Craft Centre and see the range before you decide. Telephone first, so that someone is on hand.

There is a fifth way, and it is the only new one. You can set out the specification for your dial, the size, the finish and the inscription, and send it straight to the workshop without waiting for the office to open. Commission a dial.

Delivery

  • £20.00 Armillary or wall sundial
  • £15.00 Horizontal sundial

Robert has delivered and set up a good many dials himself, and customers have written to say so. It is worth asking when you telephone, because it depends on where you are and what you have bought.

Pedestals are a separate matter. Long distance pedestal delivery is not really practical, so please read the note on pedestals before you plan around one.