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.
William Olliver made this finely engraved dial in 1682 but he was probably not to blame for the pretentious pedantry inscribed at the top. A Latin verse,no doubt written by the vicar, compares our short earthly life and our life in the hereafter with the short and long elements of an iambus. None of the villagers would know what he was talking about even if they could read the inscription. The dial is sited on a buttress near the east end of the south aisle. It has a floral pattern at the root of the gnomon and a border of alternating diamonds and ellipses. The layout of the dial is otherwise fairly standard. The gnomon is a replacement.
Ref: Cornish Sundials, Len Burge, 2002, pp 173, 66-68.
