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.
This dial was made for a chapel that originally stood nearby in Chapel Street, where it declined 12° West. It is canted in its new position to correct for the different declination of the buttress of St Mary’s where it is now to be found. In the arch are two mottoes: "Solem quis dicere falsum audeat" (Who would dare to call the sun false. Virgil) and "Tempus edax rerum" (Time the consumer of all things. Ovid). Below them is Father Time. Mrs Crowley commented on her sketch of this dial. ’Difference (sic) stone top and bottom’, and it does look very like that. The horizontal line seems too high to be an indicator of the equinoxes and, in any case, there is no nodus on the gnomon. The engraving is good, there are decorative half-hour markers and the hours are divided down to five minute intervals.
2011
St Mary’s Church, Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall
