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 Hampshire
The dial is in the residents’ garden. It is a large bespoke armillary sphere, currently incorrectly assembled and oriented.
The five-ring equatorial dial is mounted in a cradle of two half-rings (NE-SW and SE-NW) supporting a flat horizontal ring. This carries 8 compass points and shows the directions of ’London’, ’Paris’, ’Lisbon’ and ’New York’, with distances 47 NM, 192 NM, 766 NM, 3101 NM respectively.
The dial has rings marked ’Polar’, Meridian’, Horizon’, and Equatorial’, but they are not correctly assembled or oriented; for example the Horizon ring is not horizontal and the axis is not north-south. It may be that the sphere is not fixed to the cradle and could be reoriented just by turning it. Latitude and longitude are inscribed on the inside of the Horizon ring and are correct for this site, or very nearly so.
The gnomon is a plain rod with no nodus.
The whole is painted or anodised black and is mounted on a rough-cut tapering square-section stone plinth 940mm high and 229 x 229mm at the top.
The maker is unknown but the developers of Marston Gate were Banner Homes, architect Broadway and Malyan. Ornamental garden at the end.
Privare address, Hampshire
| SRN | Year | Recorded | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| S6872 | 1999 | 2007 | Location private |
| National Grid | 3 Words | Sundial Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| Condition | Type | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Fair | Equatorial | Private |
| Maker | Materials | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|
| Steel? | 1000 internal dia |