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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.

Little Hall Museum, Lavenham

The dial is set on a square section column, top and base in a courtyard garden at the rear of the building. An inscription reads: "Noiseless falls the foot of time that only treads on flowers. WFW to AKW 17th April 1905". It shows 4am to 8pm [Delin 3:45 to 8:15] in 30, 15 and 5 min marks, and uses XII and IIII with numerals read from outside the dial. Noon gap. Sturdy gnomon with stepped sigmoidal underedge.

 

Little Hall Museum, Market Place, Lavenham, Suffolk

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5589 1905 2003 52.10889, 0.79667
N 52° 06' 32", E 00° 47' 48"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TL916493
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
F Barker and Son, London Bronze Circular