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.
A badly weathered Jacobean style multiple dial. The four small scaphes on the south face have two gnomon holes each: one horizontal in the centre and one sloping near the top. On the top scaphes, these sloping holes penetrate to the top surface of the block. Thus these dials could have had rod polar gnomons and a central horizontal spike, rather than the ’triangular’ gnomon postulated by Somerville in Bulletin 89.1. The scaphe at the bottom left (when facing the S face) has traces of lines just visible. The Wills cigarette card says ’The position of the moon in relation to the planets is also indicated’. The dial block rests four on very short pillars.
The final illustration is from a lantern slide, probably of the early 20th century.
