Dial in Somerset

The dial is on the west wall of the house, visible over the garden gate. Part of it at the lower right is missing, and the broken patch was mortared by the recent owner. It shows 1pm to 8pm using uprigth Arabic numerals, in 30, 15, 5 and 1 minute intervals, with a split substyle. A motto across the top reads: ’Sol lucet charitas extendit omnibus’ (The Sun, like Charity, knows not distinctions). Across the bottom are ’RUIT HO..’ (Ruit Hora - the hour rushes by) and ’Redeem the time, it …’ (half of the motto is missing). The inscription at the centre left reads ’W WOOD / JUNE / 1829’. William Wood (1787-1860) was a schoolmaster who had served under Nelson at Trafalgar.