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 located in the parkland grounds to the south-east of the hall. It is a rectangular block mounted on a tall circular-sectioned column (sandstone?) on a square base. The block has three dial faces with gnomons intact:
SE - Hour lines are visible, but no numerals
SW - Some hour lines visible, no numerals
NE - No hour lines or numerals visible
There is a shield carved on the upper part of the column below the north-east face but no markings are visible. Initials and date ’EHS 1707’ are scratched into the lower part of the column.
Above the dial cube is a ball finial carrying an iron rod with part-twist ornament. This supports the remains of the support of a wind-vane, perhaps in the form of a fish.
Note - there is said also to be a stone vertical sundial supported by two corbels on the wall of an octagonal pigeoncote at the Hall.
