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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 Bedfordshire

Aligned Arabic numerals 4am -8pm. Short hour lines through numerals and 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 hour divs. Noon gap. False date ’1767’. Motto ’Let others tell of storms and showers, I’ll only count your sunny hours’. Incorrectly positioned by 90 deg. Base of plinth inscribed ’Garden of Rest 1959’.

 

Privare address, Bedfordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6721 1959 2006 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Brass 184 dia