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.
In the staircase window of the museum is a stained glass sundial 380mm square. It is of 17th century origin and has the motto ’Vesper in ambiguo est / age(n)dum mora noxia, Cras nil’. (The evening is uncertain, Act now. Delay is harmful. Tomorrow is nothing.) The dial declines west and shows the hours IV - IX divided into halves and quarters. A perching goldfinch appears on the left of the dial plate and there is an inset heraldic crest. This shows a bird’s wing with three crescent moons set on it, and was granted to Edward Heyward of the Inner Temple in 1611.
Ref: Sir Bernard Burke’s General Armory of England etc, 1842, p 487.
2002
2022
Museum of the History of Science (1), Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire
