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.
Circular dial on the south wall of a church with Saxon origins.
The dial is difficult to spot - high on the south wall to the right of the porch and downpipe and above the only window. It is mostly in excellent condition except for some damage at the top.
The circular dial scale is accurately carved and divided into twelve ’hours’ each marked in Roman numerals from noon (XII) at the base and with dots for half hours. As on some other sundials, the ’V’ characters have their points inwards, yet the numbers are to be read from outside so, for instance, 8 appears as IIIV when read from inside.
There is a central gnomon hole but for some reason a horizontal flat iron gnomon protrudes from a point higher up.
Victoria County History says that the dial is "possibly 12th Century".
Note that the church is at the northern limit of the village. From New Yatt Road take Church Road for a third of a mile.
2008
St Mary’s Parish Church, Church Road, North Leigh, OX29 6TX, Oxfordshire
