Dial in Somerset

The dial will be located in the garden at the south end of the property, but it is not yet mounted. It is made of Welsh blue-black slate with a brass gnomon. Seasonal date curves, labelled. Noon as gilt cross. Half-hours as gilt dots Hour numerals gilt. LUCE ET LABORE, LXXX, owner’s initials JHN as monogram all to S of gnomon. Shaped plane sunburst. Inscription round the vertical perimeter ’God Almighty first Planted a Garden / And indeed it is the Purest of Humane Pleasures / It is the Greatest Refreshment / to the Spirits of Man’ Francis Bacon. Arabic numerals for 6am, 9am, 3pm and 6pm, with a Greek cross for noon. To the south of the gnomon is an EoT graph.