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 rose garden is a circular brass horizontal dial made by J.Hawting of Oxford (c1731-1791).It shows the hours IIII - VII with a noon gap.They are divided into halves, and intervals of 10 and 2 minutes, the latter being labelled in Arabic 20, 40, 60. In the centre is an 8-point compass rose labelled to NE etc. The gnomon is pierced with a sloping cross. There is the maker’s name and the latitude 51° 43’. The dial is mounted on an ornate baluster plinth with acanthus leaves below the mounting plate and a ribbed base.
Update April 2017: The dial is no longer in position, having been replaced by a moving sycamore seed sculpture when the obelisk dial by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd (SRN 7526) was installed.
