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 dial is carved into the stonework on a corner of the south-facing wall of the tower below a shallow dripstone. There may have been some recent restoration prior to 2010.
The upright Arabic numbers run from 8am to 5pm, those along the base being smaller than on the sides. There are hour lines and sub-divisions for half and quarter hours. Unusually for a direct south-facing dial there are no numerals for 6am and 7am, or for 6pm; and no hour lines for 6am to 6:15. Hour lines meet at shield-shaped sunburst around gnomon root. Half hour lines are distinguished with arrow heads.
The elegant bronze gnomon has a short section attatched to the dial face and a tapering tail to cast the shadow.
Motto reads: "The hour is come".
2024
All Saints’ Church, Overend, Elton, PE8 6RU, Cambridgeshire
