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.
Rectangular vertical dial featuring an EoT table on a nineteenth century building.
The dial shows time from 5:30am to 6:45pm, with half and quarter hour divisions and Arabic hour numerals. The dial face declines slightly west of due south, so the 6am-6pm line is tilted and the lines above the horizontal are rather superfluous.
The simple strip gnomon has a single straight supporter. There is a noon gap between 12:00 and 12:15.
The motto at the top reads: "Respice Finem" [Think to the end (of life)].
The maker’s mark says "W.H.H. 1846". This is William Hawkins Heath (1787-1861) who also made SRN 4041 just round the corner. The Heaths were a prominent Andover family with a brewery and bank.
The Equation of Time table, headed ’The Clock Set’ gives the amount by which a clock is slower or faster than the sundial throughout the year. London Time is marked as 6 minutes faster.
The dial is inset into the brickwork and appears to be contemporaneous with the building.
Beneath the dial is a Royal Warrant, with "By Appointment To The Crown" and a heraldic crest of a bent arm holding a gavel in the hand.
