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 gardens are open occasionally for charity. Mothecombe House dates from 1710. The dial is mounted at the top of the blank south wall of a new dining room wing designed by Lutyens in 1923-25. It declines fractionally east of south. Aligned numerals VII - XII - IV - V, but designed to be read from inside the chapter ring (so the bottom row reads ’X IX IIX I II’. Hour lines to semicircle around the gnomon root. Short spear-headed half hour lines. In the chapter ring, quarter hour marks labelled 15, 30, 45 (also read from inside); and five minute marks. Lutyens’ drawing for the dial is held at the house.
