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.
This is a replica of the Richard Whitehead dial which was stolen from Dalemain in 2009.
Description of the original: Octagonal dial showing time from 4am to 8pm in half, quarter and eighth hours on scales inside the chapter ring and in minutes (with Arabic Nos) on outer edge. Strangely some of the actual hour lines on these inner scales seem missing [eg 6 and 7pm]. Inward (arrow with H form) and outward (line and dot form) half hour markers. Elaborate inner 32 point compass with all points named [eg SEbE] and on an adjacent (outer) scale with its reciprocal [eg NWbW] so as to give the sun’s bearing. Compass designed to be used with vertical rod (not present) passed through holes in the gnomon, centred on the compass. Markers on either side of the main 32 points indicate the width of this shadow for accurate centring. Two scales further divide each of the 32 points into 4 and 8 intervals. A half division is provided outside these scales (to the inside of the dial) and marked by an inward line with a three dot arrowhead. Wonderful pierced gnomon with scroll pattern, the whole mounted on an excellent panelled octagonal stone pedestal which is slightly fluted and with no visible base. Design Lat N 54d 40m.
The azimuth rod, missing in the original, has been replaced.
