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.
Fixed above the south porch, the dial is a single stone slab with the face incised leaving a raised border. It is canted out from the wall some 5-10 degrees on the right (east) side. There are traces of a date above the gnomon, possibly 1810.
The dial shows 7am to 5pm with upright Arabic numerals around a semicircular time scale.
The triangular sheet metal gnomon is inset into the block which is now cracked along the gnomon line.
Mottoes read: ’Ut umbra sic fugit vita’ at the top and ’Qualis vita finis ita’ across the bottom (all in caps, each U a V). (’Life flies like a shadow’ and ’As is the life, so is the end’.)
If you are visiting this church, look also for the two scratch/transitional dials on the south wall of the chancel.
2023
St Laurence’s Church (1), Church Road, Wicken, CB7 5XT, Cambridgeshire
