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 dial is between first floor windows on the wall of Sundial House, a cottage / teashop on the north corner of the crossroads (A396 / B3224).
It shows 5am to 4pm in 30, 15 and 5 min intervals. The half hours are marked with a fleur de lys, and there is a split substyle. The motto reads: ’Tempus Edax Rerum’. The equation of time is shown in the form of an 8 column table with corrections for 82 dates. The declination of the dial is shown as 32° 44’ E. The latitude is given as 51° 10’ which is not quite correct. It might suggest Dunster or Wootton Courteney as the original location of the dial, or it might just be a small error.
The motto (Time consumeth all things) is from Ovid, Metamorphoses, xv, 234. Gatty records this motto on several dials, including one on ’the post office at Wheddon Cross, in the Parish of Cutcombe, Somerset’. The house on which the dial is placed was once the premises of Robert Gulliford, postmaster and watch and clockmaker in Cutcombe from 1866 to 1875.
