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.
This is called a scaphe dial. The dial is a hollow dish in this case in the vertical plane. The whole is carved from limestone. The notch in the upper right segment serves as the gnomon, but here it is called a nodus. The lines on the dish mark the afternoon hours from 1pm to 5pm and the other lines mark the equinox and the two solstices, midwinter and midsummer. The maker is Harriet James, a professional sundial designer and maker. The dial was made in 2006 and you would have to travel far to see a better modern dial than this.
The dial is a memorial, and below it is the inscription ’So now the day is over and all the work is done / You take your place in God’s own garden / to rest beneath the setting sun’.
