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 name of the village, near Helston, rhymes with ’vague’. It is not easy to see details on this dial on the porch but it bears the date 1795 and the motto: ’Who duly weighs an hour’. The dial declines east and covers the hours from VI to IIII, dividing them into halves and quarters. Burge notes that the substyle is properly located for a dial of this declination and the fact that it is nine minutes slow can be accounted for by the forward tilt of the dial plate. Mrs Crowley’s 1961 drawing of the dial was confined to the sunburst surrounding the gnomon root. Note from the photo of 2020 that the gnomon was then broken.
Ref: Gatty, 1900, gives the motto as ’Who duly weighs the hours’.
