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 main quadrangle is a multiple dial made by Charles Turnbull in 1581. It stands on a 6 metre circular section column surmounted by a pyramid and a ball supporting a pelican below which is the inscription ’1581 EST GRATIA / POSUI DEUM ADJUTOREM MEUM / EST REPOSITA JUSTITIAE CORONA / GRATIA DEI MECUM’ (I have placed God as my helper. There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. The grace of God is with me. [See 2 Timothy iv . 8]). On each of the four pyramid faces is a reclining dial, while on the cube below are four painted heraldic badges from which spring the gnomons of the dials below them. On the south side of the column is a vertical dial, the maker’s initials and the date 1605. Around the column are various calendrical tables and on the north side of its base is the inscription ’Horas Omnes Complector’ (I encompass all hours).
Ref: ’The Pelican Sundial’ by Dr Philip Pattenden who restored the dial in 1976
Ref: Henslow ’Ye Sundial Booke’, Foyle Ltd, London, 1935, p93.
Ref: Wills Cigarette Card No 3
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Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire
