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.
The dial is located on the south wall of the new Lady Chapel of the church, which was rebuilt in 1968/70 following the destruction by arson of the earlier church in 1943.
Mottoes read: ’Time passeth away like a shadow’ (in a ribbon above the dial); and ’Watch and Pray’, with a figure of Time with his scythe in the pediment above the dial plate. Times and directions in three bands around the gnomon root, are for Jamaica, Jerusalem and Moscow. There are lines of almucantar (for 5-60 degrees) but before 2010 there was no nodus on the gnomon to give readings. The gnomon has an elaborate multiple curlicued pierced support, but it was wrongly fixed on the noon line, and there were other errors. The dial uses upright Roman numerals VI - XII - IV - V, with short hour lines and half-hour lines (with fleur-de-lys), and 6-minute marks.
By 2010 there had been serious deterioration to the surround, with the pediment badly faded, and the side and lower surround completely flaked away. The dial was removed and has now (2013) been totally restored by Charles Perry Ltd of St Albans.
Ref: Eden & Lloyd p473 No 1631.
2008
2008
2017
All Saints’ Church, Church Street, Isleworth, Hounslow, London (Greater)
SRN
Year
Recorded
Coords
S2246
1886
2008
51.47147, -0.31975 N 51° 28' 17.3", W 00° 19' 11.1"
