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 the centre of the flower gardens, which are open to the public twice a year under the NGS. It uses hour numerals IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from inside, with no noon gap, and divided to 30, 15 and 7.5 minutes on a scale indide the chapter ring, and to five and one minutes outside the chapter ring, labelled at tens. To the east and west of the gnomon, read from the north, is an EOT table. The dates are for the Julian calendar, dating the dial to before 1752. To the east, headed ’D’, are the months Jan - June down the left, four dates selected in each month to give a whole number of minutes reading, and an indication of Sun Faster and Slower down the right. To the west of the gnomon is the rest of the table, July - December, in the same format and also headed ’D’. The elaborate sigmoid gnomon is tall, and rooted near the centre of the dial, leaving much room to its south, but details of the furniture in this area have not yet been identified.
The dial is thought to be contemporary with the walled garden, constructed in 1702.
Similar to SRN 2892 at Mollington, Cheshire, by Dolland, London.
