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.
This dial has had a rough time. When Mrs Crowley drew it in 1963 it was broken into many pieces after boys had pulled it down while swinging on the porch gate. It was reassembled on a backing plate and managed to escape further harm when the church was broken into by delinquent youths in 2005 who set fire to it, destroying the organ and much of the east end. At the top is a motto from Psalm XC v10 "so soon pass / eth it away, / & we are gone". Under this is the date 1760, across the two sides of a semicircle below the gnomon root, and now difficult to detect. The dial shows another example of the use of the "anticlockwise convention" in setting out the numerals. Read from inside the chapter ring, the morning VI appears as IV and the following three numerals are similarly reversed as is the evening VI. This is not a mistake but a method found on many dials of the period in which the constituent letters of each numeral are read in an anticlockwise direction.
