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.
High on the South transept and not all that easy to see clearly is this slate dial. Even so, it is clearly recognisable as one of Jno Berry’s as it has the customary winged heads in the upper corners and the high quality of workmanship we associate with him. It is marred by white staining below the gnomon. We might expect rust stains here but this is something different. It is a break-arch design on a rectangular plate 450mmw x 500mmh. The date, 1768 appears in the arch and there is a sun face at the root of the gnomon. It shows the hours VI - VI divided into halves and quarters. As usual, the half-hour markers are each adorned with a fleur-de-lys and noon is marked by a decorative cipher which is largely hidden by the staining. It is canted slightly East so as to achieve due South orientation. Part of Berry’s signature can be read along the bottom edge of the dial.
