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 Berrys, Jno and Thos, father and son, have both signed the bottom of this dial on the porch and added the name of their village, Marwood. Its setting looks lopsided since the apex of the porch is more than a right angle. It is a 500m square lozenge,whose upper edges have been capped with lead, with a circular dial in the middle. The slate dial plate is built out somewhat from the wall, presumably to ensure that it is vertical. The corners of the lozenge are decorated and there is a sun face round the gnomon root. Above the dial appears the date 1795. The dial shows VI to VI (with a decorative symbol at noon) divided into halves and quarters with the half-hour lines each carrying a fleur-de-lys. The numerals are read from the inside of the chapter ring and written according to the "anticlockwise convention" in which the component letters of each numeral are consistently read in an anticlockwise direction. This arrangement is found on many dials of this period.
