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.
This is a replacement for the original 1765 oak dial, retaining all the original furniture, but with the addition of the date of the new dial, 2010, and the maker ’BW Fecit’ along the lower edge of the dial plate. Constructed from vertically boarded chestnut planks. Across the top the motto: ’Meridies Solarium’ (the dial is very nearly on the Greenwich meridian). Original date in the centre in lower half of dial, 1765. Shows 6am to 6pm in half and quarter hours. Uses XII and IIII. Numerals vertically aligned. Hour lines drawn from a semicircle at gnomon root. Latitude in semicircle ’Lat 51 45’ . Three declination lines, and four vertical azimuth lines (plus the noon line) labelled SE, SSE, S, SSW, SW. All furniture carved in relief. Strip gnomon with single upward supporter, and cross-bar nodus.
2010
2010
2010
All Saints’ Church, Betts Lane, Nazeing, EN9 2DB, Essex
