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 circular, painted on a square board mounted as a diamond shape. At the top is ’SH Fecit / MMXII’, and above the gnomon, prominently ’Probity produces punctuality / Pocklington / Wm. Watson delin.’. The Lat and Long are shown in the west and east spandrels respectively. Hours, aligned to the hour lines, are V - XII - IV. Solstice and equinox lines are shown, with half hour divisions between and just hour lines above and below them. The gnomon is a thin gilded rod with a fan in-fill and two straight rod bracing supports.
This dial was made by BSS member Stephen Holehan, using an original design from the notebook of William Watson, a local 19th century sundial maker. (See SRNs 0253, 0254, 0223 and possibly 2904 for examples of Watson’s work, and 7676 for another of Holehan’s).
William Watson lived in George Street, a few doors up from where the replica sundial has been placed. He was buried at Seaton Ross in 1857 and his gravestone states: ’At this church I so often with pleasure did call, that I made a sun-dial upon the church wall’ (see SRN 0254).
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Sisson’s Butchers, 1, George Street, Pocklington, YO42 2AX, Yorkshire (ER)
