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 high standard of craftsmanship and some of the features in this slate dial are suggestive of the work of the Berry family but, unless there was an older generation of the family of whom no record survives, the date 1709 is too early (cf Romansleigh). In the top corners are winged heads, there is a sun face at the root of the gnomon and a decorative cipher representing noon. It shows VI - VI divided into halves by lines decorated with fleur de lys and into quarters. It is canted out from the porch in order to achieve a true south orientation. Lichens have colonised the dial plate and the dial is now shaded by trees for much of the day. It measures 840mmh x 760mmw.
Ref: Mrs Crowley’s Sundial Sketchbooks, ed John Lester, D. 1. 5.
