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.
Easily recognisable as a dial by Jno Berry, this slate dial on the porch has a break-arch design on a rectangular slab. It declines 15° West and shows VII - VI with (unusually) XII at noon and the customary IIII for 4pm. The hours are divided into halves by lines, each with a fleur-de-lys, and into quarters. In the upper corners are the usual winged heads and the date, 1788, is engraved round the arch. A sun face surrounds the root of the gnomon. There are seven declination lines with zodiac markers and the gnomon still has its nodus so that we can use these to find the time of year. There are ten place names from which we can compare their noon with our own local solar time. The names of two church wardens, A Loveband and G.C----k, appear across the bottom of the dial before Berry’s signature. The dial measures 500mmw x 600mmh.
