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 plate is set into stonework above the entrance into the south porch. It replaces an earlier (1980s) dial, which in turn replaced a dial made famous in Dickens’ David Copperfield. It shows the hours from 6am to 6pm in half hours. Hour lines radiate from triangular ’flames’ of a semicircle at the gnomon root, with originally gold infilling on all incised markings, though this was largely worn off by 2019. The brass strip gnomon has a concave supporter and a date of 1993 is shown at the top of the dial.
Ref: Lowestoft Journal, 11/3/94, p3.
2019
St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Road, Blundeston, NR32 5AX, Suffolk
