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.
The inscriptions on this dial are (at the toe of the gnomon) ’GEO A NEWTON. WATFORD. A. D. 1923’ and (within the chapter ring) ’LAT 51 39 12 N. LONG 0 23 30 N HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL 240 FEET’. The gnomon support is shaped as large letter ’N’. Aligned Roman numerals V - XII - IIII - VII are read from outside, with split noon, and hour lines and 30, 15 and 5 minute divisions. There is an eight-point compass rose at centre labelled to NE etc. The plinth is a bulbous ovoid shape, of square cross section with spheres at the top corners supporting a square stone top, engraved around its four edges ’LIGHT OF THE WORLD / DRAW NEAR / WHERE DARKNESS IS / AND FEAR’. The four sides of the plinth also carry inscriptions.
