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 stone dial plate, with hollow moulded edges, is mounted, with four iron dog-nails, on the south wall of the nave of this ’redundant church’.
The dial has two concentric square chapter rings, with upright but aligned Roman numerals. The outer ring has VI - XII - IV - VI, divided to half and quarter hours. The inner ring has hours offset by just over four hours, with II - IV - XII - I. The offset scale seems to indicate the time at another location, currently unknown but possibly Bermuda or the more southerly West Indies. Across the centre are seven declination curves, labelled with zodiac symbols between the two chapter rings. There is also a horizon line inscribed ’HORIZON’ above. Vertical lines cross the declination curves, possibly azimuth lines, but these are not labelled.
The iron bar gnomon has a single sloping supporter and carries a bar or peg nodus.
There would appear to be an inscription, possibly ’NOBIS ...’ across the declination lines above the equinoctial line. There has once been an inscription across the top of the whole dial plate, but it is now indecipherable.
2009
St John the Baptist Church, Main Road, Parson Drove, PE13 4LF, Cambridgeshire
