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.
An analemmatic dial like this requires the observer to act as the gnomon by standing on the N-S pathway, inscribed with the months of the year, as close as possible to the current date. His own shadow will then indicate the time amongst the hour markers. Inscribed in an inner ring is ’TACT PERSEVERANCE SYMPATHY EXPLICITNESS LOYALTY OBSERVATION GALLANTRY DEXTERITY’; and in an outer ring ’TO PROTECT AND SERVE THE COMMUNITY - FIRE AND RESCUE - ’. A plaque on a surrounding seating wall records that the dial is dedicated to four fire fighters who lost their lives at Atherstone in 2007. Arabic numerals 4am to 8pm. The noon line marked ’N’ and also ’GREENWICH MEAN TIME. The dial is about 7 metres in diameter.
2010
Riverside Promenade by Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
