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 is at the main approach to the house from the drive.
The hours are in Roman numerals. 4 is IV, 12 is XII, there is a gnomon gap at noon, and there are transversals outside the chapter ring. In the centre is a 16 point compass rose, with 8 points marked to NE etc.
On a separate attached plate, now difficult to decipher is : ’Umbra tegit lapsas praesentique imminet horae / Dum lux dum lucis semita virtus agat’ (Ere yet the threatening shade o’er spreads the hour / Hasten bright virtue and exert thy power).
The style of the gnomon is engraved ’Harrison Liverpool fecit’, and the scrolls of the gnomon support also carry decorative engraving.
The pedestal is 1090mm high above the basal octagonal plinth which is 130mm high. The southern half of the rim of the dialplate base is broken away, and the pedestal has some cracks. The white marble of the pedestal matches the very fine fireplaces made by Bromfield of Liverpool to the designs of C. Mead, the architect of the house and stables.
The workings of the stable clock have the same Harrison Liverpool signature, and also the date 1799, giving the probable date of the dial.
