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.
A very tall cross and sundial, by the roadside (A534) at St Marys Churchyard. Once considered the finest sundial in Cheshire, but that was before time, weather and neglect had taken its toll. The dial has four faces facing N, S, E, and W but no numerals are now visible. These are topped by a globe which once had more detail on and probably like the dial, painted. There was once a motto, carved on the steps, ’Tempus fugit, Mors venit, Ut hora, Sic vita,’ (Time flys, death comes, as the hour, so is life.) The dial is late 18th century. It would be hard to restore it to anything like its original condition but cannot something be done to at least halt the decay?
2009
St Mary’s Churchyard, by the A534, Acton nr Nantwich, CW5 8LE, Cheshire
