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.
Not easily found - follow a private road to Ossington Hall. All four gnomons intact, flat iron bars. The S one has an ’S’ support, the N one an ’O’, the E and W have parallel straight legs. Above the S dial ’Tempus Fugit’; below the N, just still readable, ’William Arden fecit 1742’. Upright Roman numerals using XII and IIII, with dots at half hours. The dial cube stands on a circular sectioned pillar, 310 dia at the base, 1850 high, on three tiers of octagonal stone steps. The cube is surmounted by an incurved pyramid with a stone sphere at the top, supplied with a flat iron equatorial ring, now unfixed at one of its two supports. Total height from ground to apex is approx 3800. The details will not be recoverable for much longer (Oct 05).
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Church of the Holy Rood, Ossington, Nottinghamshire
