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 dial is on the front of a house near the centre of town, on the A6108. It is a painted circular dial in a square white stone surround set in the wall at first floor level above the front door. The paint was beginning to peel in 2014. The wall and the dial decline 10 degrees east. A motto around the circular top reads: ’Sic labitur aetas’ (Thus life slips away). The top corners hold initials ’J B’, and ’Cargrave fecit’ (or possibly ’Gargrave fecit’) is in a complete circle at the gnomon root. The maker was probably John Briggs of Gargrave. The date ’17 78’ is in the lower corners. Aligned numerals VI - XII - IIII - V, using the reverse convention for VI to IX, whereby the numerals are read in the direction in which the shadow moves around the face of the dial. Bar gnomon with ’S’ support.
Ref: W S Calverley, pub Titus Wilson, Kendal 1988 pp 40 & 54. Also Gatty who says the dial was removed from the church in 1876.
