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.
Very attractive modern circular horizontal dial erected for the millennium.
The dial is etched into an octagonal brass plate. In the centre is a 16 point compass rose. Round it are hour, half and quarter hour lines, with a noon gap. In a chapter ring are Roman hour numerals, aligned with the hour lines and read from inside / the opposite side of the dial. A narrow outer ring has 5 minute marks. They span from 4:05 to 7:55 - times probably chosen for aesthetic reasons and to leave a gap on the south side of the dial for a graph of the Equation of Time. This apparently allows GMT or BST to be found, except that it is not longitude corrected, so times shown are 6 minutes slow.
The dial is inscribed ’Silas Higgon fecit Lat 52 30 N’. (Note that Hornton is actually 52 06N). It is mounted on a 2-stepped 12-sided structure in the middle of the village green, inscribed ’Remembering / the past / and looking / to the future / Hornton / celebrates / the millennium / year M.M’
