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 a version of Pearson Page’s early 20th century model 4206, with the motto ’Vigila Oraque’ (Watch and Pray) across the top and here made with the (false) date 1679 below the gnomon root. It is mounted above first floor level on a chimney breast facing about 8° east of south, easily visible from the street, in a large white stone frame, deeply carved with a lion’s head above and a floral spray below. The hours slope inwards, using VI - XII - IIII, with hour lines through the numerals, divided to half hours only. The gnomon is a square section bar with an ’S’ shaped support. The sub-style is at about 10:40am, suggesting that the dial is actually designed for a declination of about 12° east, so it was not made for this location.
2021
2021
2021
West 1st Street / North Hudson Avenue, Hancock Park, Los Angeles, Overseas Dials
