BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
The hours use XII for noon and IIII for four pm, and VI, VII and VIII am, and VI pm, are written backwards (’round the clock’), as is not uncommon. Around the gnomon are carved ’I H T S / WARDNES / 1653’, the W of WARDNES being superimposed Vs, and the letters NE being conjoined, both presumably to save space.
The gnomon is an iron bar with a hooked tip, and the straight support has a curled spur on the upper side and its own hook at the top.
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St Lawrence with Brompton Church, Lydeard Down Hill, Lydeard St Lawrence, TA4 3SF, Somerset
