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 found on the right hand side of the path leading to the south porch, near the church. The plinth is unusual, with the basic square section having the four sides pierced with lancet openings to an open centre. It is the pinnacle-stone of a buttress to the south wall built in 1599 and inscribed ’1599 Thomas Py’. (Thomas Pie was vicar at that time.) The stone was saved and used to mount a sundial when a new south wall was built in 1878. An early painted postcard shows the pedestal with a different sundial but this may have been artistic licence.
The dial sits on an octagonal top stone, and the gnomon is missing. Numerals are IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from outside, divided to 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 divisions. There is a split noon, and the maker’s name at the south is ’Dollond / London’. A large 8-point compass at the centre is labelled to NE etc.
