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.
An unusually thick circular horizontal, with on the sloping edge "LONG 1 DEG 56 MIN W". Two inner chapter rings give the time in New York, in Arabic numerals, and in Melbourne, Australia, using Gothic Roman characters. Mottoes read: "Time by moments steals away; First the hour then the day", then (in Greek): Redeem the time because the days are evil, "Tempus Edax Rerum" (Time is the consumer of all things), "Therefore boast not thyself of tomorrow for on thine eyelids is the shadow of death", then "What is Deity?" and "What is eternity?". Around the vertical perimeter of the circular mount stone "God’s time is always best I number none but sunny hours". Below the mount stone, on the sloping sides of its supports, "Ex Dono SAR [in monogram] 1882" and another monogram, possibly DRC. SAR may be for Richardson, see a letter to Mrs Richardson of 17 High Street, Stockton on Tees, dated Dec 27 1882 from suppliers Craig and Mackenzie. Maker John Smith of Stockton-on-Tees (cf verticals SRN 3436 at Middlesbrough, N Yorks, and a third similar model which is or was at Castle Howard).
Copies of the dial were offered for sale by Craig and Mackenzie of Stockton on Tees - see also SRN 6655.
