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 mounted above a ground floor bay window on the south face of the building, declining very slightly to the east. Mottoes read: ’Nunc hora Bibendi’, down each side, and ’Le Temps passe l’amitie reste, c’est l’heure de bien faire’, below. The dial was probably made for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The designer is unknown but is known to have made clock faces in the town. Art Nouveau Arabic numerals are used for 6am to 5pm divided to 30 and 15 minutes. A split substyle line accommodates a wide gnomon supported only at its root. Lines and numerals in lead are set in the face of the dial. An unusual inner semicircular time scale repeats that at the edge. Hour lines pass to the root of the gnomon.
