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 stone vertical declining dial is set in the stonework above the entrance and steps down from the terrace onto the rear lawns of the manor, on the north-east face of the gateway. It is attractive but incorrectly delineated. The hour numerals read clockwise but are otherwise laid out as for a direct south dial; but the gnomon is off-set as if for a dial facing about 30 degrees west of south. The circular dial is set within a square border with mouldings around, and decoration in the four spandrels. In the top section of the chapter ring is the motto ’Amidst the flowers / I count the hours’.
The manor house was extensively restored, and the gardens laid out in ’Jacobean style’ c1897 by Thomas Garner the celebrated Victorian gardener.
2013
Yarnton Manor (2), Church Lane, Yarnton, OX5 1PY, Oxfordshire
