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.
Octagonal vertical dial high on the south-west-facing wall of the Town Hall.
The dial is a 1958 copy of an earlier, corroded, dial, known in 1825 but which may have dated to 1644 (date of building). It has nearly full length hour lines. In an inner chapter ring are half and quarter hour marks on a pale blue ground. The outer chapter ring is dark blue and has vertical Roman hour numerals from 9am to 6pm. All lines, numerals, and the motto "Nec Quae Praeterit Hora Redire Potest" (from Ovid) are gilded.
The wall declines about 25 degrees west of south. The gnomon is a simple pointer-ended metal strip. Unusually for a declining dial the gnomon supporter stands on the noon line, angled to put the top edge of the gnomon in the north-south plane. There is no evidence of a noon gap.
The dial is mounted with four screws to the brick wall.
2008
Town Hall, Couching Street (B4009), Watlington, OX49 5PY, Oxfordshire
