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.
This Grade II listed War Memorial is at the junction of the A3400 and the B4439. At the top of a tall stone pillar mounted on a stepped triangular base is an equilateral prism with 600mm square bronze dials on its three faces. Across the three faces is inscribed: ’The days short, the / work great, their time / passed like a shadow’. (See Henley in Arden for another war memorial dial (SRN 6694) and the possible connections with Baron Ash of Packwood House). The south face declines 10degs east and shows 6am to 8pm in half hours. Figuring, hour lines and inscription are in relief on a sunken ground. The makers were Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham.
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War Memorial at Jnct A3400 & B4439, Hockley Heath, Warwickshire
