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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.

Dial in Essex

The dial is in the rear patio area. It is from the Daily Telegraph gardening section, self-assembly. Arabic numerals 4 - 12 - 8. Brass sphere nodus added, and cupro-nickel discs at +/- 23.5 deg to indicate solstices, and slit cut out of meridian ring to allow shadow of gnomon to indicate noon.

 

Image of dial 6561
2009

Privare address, Essex

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6561 2001 2005 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Equatorial Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Painted steel Nominal 356 dia