St Michael’s & All Angels Church, Loxhore

The church lies at the end of a lane which goes nowhere else. On its tower and mounted above the lowest string course is a dial which has seen better days and is now without much of its upper segment. A sun face surrounds the gnomon root and there is a blank shield beneath. It shows VII - V divided into half hours with a decorative cipher for noon. When Mrs Crowley drew it in 1953 she remarked that it looked as though it had been made by an amateur. This idea is substantiated by a careful examination of the numerals which shows that VIII and IX have been altered and the top of V has been erased in an attempt to make it look lower. All erasures are still visible. The dial part of the plate measures 380mm square but we can only guess at the total height.