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.
A Greek inscription on the N face can be translated as ’The darkness recedes and the true light now shines’ (I John 2 viii). An inscription around the base of the W, S and E faces reads: ’Che Sara Sara’. The west face shows 2pm to 9pm, East face shows 3am to 10am, South shows 7am to 5pm. All numerals are aligned and Roman, read from outside, and use XII and IIII. Shows time in half and quarter hours. The E gnomon is mounted 180 deg out of position, and would seem to have been like this since the dial was first made. Set on a plain circular column 1400h.
[Lutyens, in his notes and sketches for the dial (held in the RIBA library at the V&A Museum, Ref PA1626/4), proposed that the motto on the N face would read ’I tell of none but sunny hours’, and had ’Che Sara Sara’ on the E, S and W sides respectively - both ideas fortunately changed in the final execution!]
