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 dial plate is set into brickwork on the east face of the chimney stack at the east end of the house. Across the top is ’Festina Nox Mox’ [Hasten, the night (cometh) soon].
The house was once a Royal Mint, and was afterwards occupied by Queen Elizabeth and James I successively.
Ref: Gatty, 1900, p258, where she gives the motto as ’Festina Mox Nox’, quoting from the ’Graphic’ of Aug 11, 1883.
