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 square commercial dial replaces a sequence of previous instruments which have been stolen from this and previous pedestals in the location (see SRN 4116). It is a square plate with an 8-point compass rose and simple rose designs at each corner. It has numerals IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, divided to 30, 15 and 5 minutes, read from the outside, and a noon gap too wide for its thin gnomon. At the south is the motto ’Tempus Fugit’. It stands on a good quality tall circular cross sectioned fluted pillar with circular mount stone.
Ref: NT website (ref NT 807941) says: ’A square copper sundial face with Roman numerals, inscribed ’hora fugit’ at bottom of face. Label on rear states ’presented to the National Trust by Mr Angus I Macnaghten, New Mile Cottage, Ascot, Berkshire, on 2nd July 1984’
2015
2015
Chastleton House [NT] (5), Chasleton, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 0SU, Oxfordshire
