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.
A slate horizontal embedded in a stone slab. Hours marked V - XII - IV - VII read from inside the dial. With a noon gap and divisions for 30, 15 and 7½ minutes. A
16-point compass rose with labels for NE, East, SE, NW, West, SW. Further divisions into 32, 64 and 128 are indicated by chevrons, long and short tick marks
respectively. Outside that there is a ring of 360 tick marks in 1° increments, numbered in 10s. Inscribed: “Pereunt et Imputantur” (They pass by and are reckoned – Gatty); “Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?” (Who dare say the sun is false? Virgil); “1848” ; “Latitude 55° 22ʹN”. In the four corners: “Thomas”, “Armstrong”, “Teacher”, “Beadnell”. Ref. Bulletin 37(iii), 16-19 (September 2025).
