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 slate dial canted on the porch today is not the first sundial to be installed at this church. Mrs Gatty states that there is a record that in 1608 the churchwardens "paid iiis for the diall on the church wall". Around the top of the arch are the names of the churchwardens, Edw’d Hockins and Richard Nicholas. Below them is the date 1804 and a motto, "Life Passeth Like a Shadow". The dial shows VI - VI divided into halves and quarters. Uses XII & IIII. Split Noon line. The initials TC, RC on inset stone below and the date 1786 probably have nothing to do with the dial. The dial measures 300mmw x 430mmh.
