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.
Diamond-shaped vertical dial on a south-west facing wall overlooking a roundabout.
The dial and the gnomon look plausible but are completely incorrect. The delineation shows 12 hours yet the hour lines span only 90 degrees, whereas 12 hours invariably span 180 degrees. Could the hour numbers have been repainted wrongly at some time? The vertical hour line is marked as 1pm, yet vertical hour lines are invariably noon. The numerals are angled, perhaps to aid reading from the ground.
The gnomon angles are incorrect and the gnomon is bent.
The dial has been repainted recently (as at 2017) and now carries the inscription ’Here comes the sun’ in an arc below the gnomon root.
2017
Sundial Salon, Elgiva Lane and High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire
