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 is an indoor sundial with two projected spots on west and east walls and one catoptric projection from the south. In all the dial has delineation by the owner on 24 different surfaces (14 on the floor steps), with skyscapes painted in casein tempera by the owner’s stepdaughter Dominique Lacloche de Vallombreuse. It tells time, date, zodiac, altitude and azimuth of the sun, also times of sunrise and sunset.
The installation was completed in 2004. It is in a square tower, 6000mm from floor to ceiling, with sides 3000mm wide. The accuracy varies, from
five to 15 seconds when corrected.
The motto around the top is ’AB ORTV SOLIS VSQUE AD OCCASVM LAVDABILE NOMEN DOMINI’ from Psalm 113:3 (From the rising of the sun (on the west wall) to the setting (on the east wall) Praised be the Name of the Lord).
See also SRN 8166 which was an experimental dial of 1994, built to test the feasibility of constructing La Meridiana.
Ref: A very full description appears in BSS Bulletin Vol 24(i) March 2012, pp23-27.
