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 in a small Knot Garden close to the house. It has an elaborately pierced iron gnomon with hooped side supports, and the gnomon root is at the centre of the circular top of the pedestal. Hour lines for 5am to 7pm are inscribed directly into the pedestal head, but no furniture or numerals remain. Inscribed around the top stone is ’I mark time - dost thou’. The pedestal is a fine solid circular sectioned pillar with spiral ornamentation around the shaft, on a square base. It has been suggested that it may be a column top from the nearby ruined Rievaulx Abbey but this is unlikely.
