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 west front of the Cathedral.
It is painted over nine courses of stone-work as black lines and numerals on a white ground. There is gold infill to the large ’1762’ (the original date) and to ’arrow’ heads on the half hour markers. Upright Roman numerals give the hours from 2pm to 8pm with IV for 4pm. The subdivisions are half and quarter hours.
Four dates are given, in Arabic numerals, on the face of the dial: 1762, 1914, 1968 and 2009. These record the original date and subsequent restorations.
This is one of three dials on the walls of the Cathedral.
