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.
A single vertical dial on a four-face stone prism on a tall fluted column. The sundial reads from 6am to 6pm in half hours. The hours are shown in Arabic numerals only every two hours, with Roman numerals marking 6am and 6pm at the very top of the dial. There is a unique Equation of Time correction graphic on the West face of the stone block. The substantial strip gnomon of copper has a single upward curving supporter. The date of 1870 is shown on a plaque at the foot of the column, but the dial may be earlier, and the date, though now illegible, has been reported as xx24, possibly 1724. An inscription on the East side of the block reads: "Monet Annvs/Et Almvm/Qvae Rapit/Hora Diem", from Horace, Odes Bk IV No 7. [The whole quote is "Immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum quae rapit hora diem" – "Time, by the hour, snatches away the indulgent day and advises that you may not hope for immortality".] The dial block is surmounted by an urn, and the supporting pillar stands in a bowl-shaped drinking fountain.
1997
2010
Abbey Gardens, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1UZ, Suffolk
