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.
This cube dial is on the Bowling Green Terrace, mounted on a sandstone pedestal with slate top.
Three sides and the top have dials, the top being an octagonal double horizontal. It has Roman numerals IIII - XII - VIII, read from the inside, in 30, 15, 7.5 mins and in outer ring in 10s and 1 minute marks numbered in (Arabic) tens. There is a 32-point compass around the root of the gnomon, labelled eg ’SOVTH’, SE b S radially, with ’NORTH’ by the knife edge. The stereographic grid is divided to 5 mins time and 1 degree of declination. The ecliptic has constellation sigils. The altitude scale is at 45 degs on the west side of the gnomon. At the south is ’Cherbury Lat 52d 37m’ (or Chirbury?). The gnomon tip is bent slightly down.
The vertical south dial gnomon is of sheet iron with a fimbriated bottom edge, pierced with a heart.
The side dials are sunken part cylinders. The east scaphe has hour lines painted black and numbered VII - XI, and the west scaphe has I - V.
The ’cube’ s an estimated 406 x 406 x 483h and the whole is 1350h. It was under conservation in 2004.
Ref: BSS Monograph No 5 (DH-35), and Bulletin article, Davis & Lowne.
