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.
Rectangular vertical painted dial on a buttress.
The dial declines 12 degrees east of due south. It consists of black lines painted on stone with no apparent background colour. It shows 6am to 5pm in half hours. The Roman hour numerals, except those with an ’X’ in, are aligned with the hour lines, though not in the normal way. They use XII at noon and IIII at 4pm.
The gnomon is a triangle of sheet metal. Around the gnomon root are three black concentric circles with cream infill. The inner one has seven alternating black and cream sectors in the upper semicircle, perhaps representing sun rays.
The date, 1776, is painted at the bottom.
The buttress is to the left of the priest’s door into the chancel on the south side of the church.
2008
St Mary the Virgin’s Parish Church, Church Lane (off Dyer’s Hill) and Church Street, Charlbury, OX7 3PS, Oxfordshire
