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 near the southern end of the gardens. It was made by Kelston Forge in 1994 to a design by David Brown to look like the original dial of 1916, which had been stolen.
It is an armillary sphere of 3½ rings with an equatorial hour band which is cut away where not needed to indicate the time. Black ironwork and numerals on white painted hour scale. Shows 4am to 8pm in half hours. Noon is marked as XII and 4pm as IV. Upward arrow gnomon with head and (bent) flight. Set on an ornate pestal with dolphin carvings. Motto on stone dolphin pedestal reads: ’Horas non numero nisi serenas’.
The dial was originally placed at the northern end of the gardens. In 2015(?) it was moved to its present inferior position near the southern end of the gardens, and was wrongly aligned. It was restored and re-aligned in 2019 by David Brown. An adjacent EoT plaque commemorates the 2019 BSS Conference held in Bath and the unveiling of the dial by the Chairman Dr Frank King. Referenced in BSS Bulletins Vol 39(ii) pp 41,42 and Vol 39(iii) p 7.
