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 horizontal dial in the garden is a reproduction of an earlier dial by Benjamin Martin of London (1704-1782) which was stolen in 1996. The present dial stands on the original baluster pedestal, just over a metre high. The plate is inscribed at the south, read fron the north "B Martin / London / Lat 50° 50’ ". The gnomon is inscribed on the east side ’Killerton House’, with the design latitude and longitude, and on the west with the names C St J H Daniel & A Evason (delineavit), L D O Connell (caelavit), Plowden & Smith (fecit), and ’Reconstructed London’. It shows the hours from IV - VIII read from the outside and divided into half hours and 10, and 2 1/2 minute intervals. In the centre is a 16-point compass rose, labelled to NNE etc.
Ref: Original dial see SRN 3223
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Killerton House [NT] (2), Broadclyst, EX5 3LE, Devon
