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 house is occasionally open and the dial is in the inner courtyard. Aligned Roman numerals, read from the inside, IIII- XII - IIII - VIII, with a noon gap and hour lines, divided to 30, 10, 5 and 1 min. 3-dot halves. There are 15 separate concentric time rings for other locations, each ring having hour numerals and half and quarter hours, and each city having its longitude given. There is a large 32-point compass rose labelled to eg NE/bN, and the centre is a sun disc with alternate straight and wavy rays. There are two Coats of Arms in the spandrels. One Motto reads: "??? Facile Mercy", one (under the family coat-of-arms) "HAVD FACILE EMERGVNT". The rest is indecipherable. The dial is signed and is probably by Henry Wynne, but the inscription has been read as ’Willm [or Richd] Wyne fecit’. There is a lovely pierced gnomon (the angle measured at 52 54), with floral decoration on both sides of the style and the base. The dial is mounted on large circular section stone baluster plinth with an octagonal top (1100h). Refer also to the Guidebook to the house.
Many photographs, and details of cities, are held in the archive.
