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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Barclay’s Bank, Wakefield

Dial declines 50 degrees east, and is inset into an elaborate brick surround. Gnomon has scalloped under edge. White stone dial shows 4am to 2pm in 15 min intervals. Sun motif in top right of dialplate. Two bands of three horizontal lines under the dial at the bottom of the dial plate. Building was a pub in the 1800s.

 

Image of dial 3999
2007

Barclay’s Bank, Wood Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire (W)

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S3999 1881 2005 53.68250, -1.50028
N 53° 40' 57", W 01° 30' 01"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SE331208
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone, metal 600w x 900h approx