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 building was originally a Baptist chapel and is listed by English Heritage. The dial is below the large stained glass window on the south wall, and is just visible from the street, above the high surrounding wall and fence. At the top is ’B S T’, but this would appear not to indicate British Summer Time, as the XII hour line is vertical. Long hour and half-hour lines project to an undrawn semicircle around the gnomon root, with ticks for quarters. Upright sans-serif numerals use the form VII - XII - IV - VI. The dial plate, probably of painted wood, is screwed to the surface of the brick wall, and a timber sill support is sunk into the brickwork below. Above the dial, in a stone band, is the date 1787, dating the chapel and probably an original dial in this place.
2009
A G Smith & Son Depository, Union Street, Sheerness, Kent
