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.
Rectangular vertical painted wooden dial facing south-west.
The very large dial has a gilded semicircle representing the sun at the gnomon root. From here there are full length black hour lines, and shorter half and quarter hour lines on a pale grey ground. The rectangular chapter ring has gilded upright Roman numerals from 8am to 7pm on a blue ground. Above the dial is the date ’A.D. MDCCCIII’ [1803, the date of a previous restoration] under a stone lip that protects the dial.
The gilded gnomon is a thin square-section rod with a short straight support near the root and an elegant ’S’-shaped support near its end. As the tower wall declines 28 degrees west of due south and reclines backwards about 1 degree, the gnomon’s substyle lies near the 2:15 mark.
The dial was beautifully restored in 2001 by Harriet James.
2017
2009
St Cross Church, St Cross Road, Oxford, OX1 3TP, Oxfordshire
