Boconnoc Parish Church, Boconnoc

The church lies in the parkland of Boconnoc House. On its porch is a vertical sundial canted west in a stone surround. Across the top are a large ’RC’ on the left, and on the right, smaller, ’DT TG’ with the date ’1716’ below, probably the vicar and churchwardens when the dial was put in place. A severe looking sun face surrounds the root of the replacement gnomon. The dial shows the hours from 6am to 6pm divided into halves and quarters and the Roman numerals are arranged according to the ’anti-clockwise convention’. In this quite widespread system the constituent letters of each Roman numeral are engraved in anti-clockwise order as an examination of VI, VII, and VIII will reveal. Noon is shown with a Greek cross.