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 mounted on a marble pillar. It stood once in the Fernery and was then moved to the American Garden; but by 2017 it was in the cloister. It shows hours IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from the outside, and divided to 30, 15 and 5 minutes. There is an 8-point compass rose, unlabelled, and at the north is the maker’s name, ’Osmond / Sarum’. Across the south side of the dial, read from the north, is inscribed ’This piece of Marble / The Capital of one of the smaller Columns / of the "Temple of Venus" at the / Piraeus, Athens / Presented to Mrs F Webb / by Captain F W Gore 3rd Regt October 1856’.
Ref: See "Throwing Light on a Sundial at Newstead Abbey", J Wilson, BSS Bulletin 29(ii) June 2017, pp 29-31.
