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 North side of the church faces the village so that this slate dial on the unused South porch is out of sight and out of mind. The shape is a curious mix between a breakarch design and a pedimented one. The date, 1758 appears at the top of the arch and beneath this is inscribed the name of the maker, Joseph Phillips, who made the dial at Holbeton ten years later. The dial shows VI - VI in half and quarter hours. Uses XII and IIII. The half-hour lines each have a decorative feature. Top right and lower left seem to have been repaired. Other edges are damaged. The dial measures 450mmw x 610mmh. Etymologists explaining place-names often prove disappointing as they fall back on names of hypothetical individuals to derive the answer. It is true here: this is Ugga’s Hill.
