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 attractive dial in Elterwater slate has upright Arabic numerals for hours 7am to 5pm, divided to half hours. The gilded brass gnomon rises from the centre of an 18-pointed sun. To each side across the top of the dial is a blue bird, and in the centre of the dial plate is depicted a tree with red fruit and blue leaves. Across the foot of the dial plate is ’June Thorpe / who loved this garden’, bordered by ’1934...2014’. The inscription, sun, hour marks and numerals are all gilded. The bar gnomon has an integral horizontal support bar.
The dial is mounted near the top of a high wall with a very fruitful espalier pear tree. Beside an arched opening in the wall below the dial is a plaque with instructions and an EOT graph.
2020
2020
King John’s House, Church Street, Romsey, SO51 8BT, Hampshire
