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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Museum of the History of Science (3), Oxford

The dial is in the Curator’s office. Motto reads: "Dum Spectas Fugio". [While you watch I fly away]. Shows 6am to 4pm in half and quarter hours. Museum Hist Science Acquisition 56-108. Gift of the glazier who placed the three dials here in 1956.

 

Museum of the History of Science (3), Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2281 16xx 1994 51.75389, -1.25667
N 51° 45' 14", W 01° 15' 24"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SP514064
Condition Type Access
Fair Vertical (D) Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stained glass 165 x 134