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 of fine-grained yellow/greenish sandstone (perhaps Gwespyr stone, which has also been used for part of the cathedral). There are no numerals, but twenty deeply cut hour lines in the top of the pedestal, which may have been re-engraved. The bronze gnomon may be a replacement. It is inset into the stone, and was the wrong way round in 2001 (and 2008). The dial shows 4am to 8pm in hours.
The dial stands on a pillar 1220 high on a 610 square base. ’1596 / TB’ is clearly engraved on the side of the pillar, and beneath this are other initials which may be ’AB’. The present house is on the site of the old deanery, and ’TB’ may refer to Thomas Banks, Dean in 1596.
