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.
Simply painted on the brick wall of the coach house, this declining vertical dial must require regular maintenance but is in fairly good condition given that it was created in 1902. Hour lines spring from a flaming sun around the root of the gnomon, with half hour and quarter hour divisions; but there is evidently a problem with the delineation as the horizontal hours show as 6am and 7pm. The motto ’LUX DEI’ lies beneath a depiction of the French flag and flanks the monogram CA. Shields of Cambridge City Council and Cambridge University lie in the lower corners.
The glasshouse below the dial was originally built for Charles Darwin, who lived in a nearby house.
Murray Edwards College was formerly called ’New Hall’.
2008
Murray Edwards College (2), Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF, Cambridgeshire
