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.
Henry Wynne made this bronze horizontal sundial on the NE Terrace in 1680. It is a large dial measuring about 610mm in diameter. It shows the hours IIII - VIII divided into halves and periods of 10, 5 and 1 minutes, the half hour marks bearing a fleur-de-lys. There is a noon gap. At the centre is the badge of the Order of the Garter and its motto ’Honi soit qui mal y pense’. The maker’s name appears to the south of this. There are 32 compass directions with their names spelled out in full, eg ’South by South West’ . Each has its reciprocal in abbreviated form, eg ’NBE’. This is one of the ’laminated’ dials like its counterpart now at Clarence House. The elaborate gnomon has floral decoration on both sides of style and base. It is supported by the monogram CR of Charles II, intertwined so that it can be read from either side. Above the monogram is the royal crown. The pedestal is by Grinling Gibbons.
