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 church was built by a bequest from John Barwick, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, who died in 1664, to provide a burial place in the village of his birth. This was to prevent the dead having to be carried across the tidal estuary of the river Kent for burial at St Michael’s Church in Beetham. The dial is signed ’I B’ (John Barwick) by the gnomon root. The plate is very worn but uses Roman numerals read from the inside.
