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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Town Square, Brechin

An octagonal block with 8 vertical and reclining dials and a horizontal on top, narrowing to a lower collar of 8 vertical dials. All show the time in principal cities of the world. All gnomons are present except for the top one, of which just the lower half remains.

 

Image of dial 1480
2010
Image of dial 1480
2010
Image of dial 1480
2010

Town Square, Brechin, Tayside Region

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1480 19xx 1986 56.72917, -2.65056
N 56° 43' 45", W 02° 39' 02"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NO603599
Condition Type Access
Excellent Mult Facet Head Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
James Tosh Sandstone 450 to 610