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.
This handsome slate dial on the church porch is canted to face south. It has decorated edges and the engraving is deep, especially in the numerals showing the hours and date. The way the numerals are written is another example of the use of the "anticlockwise convention" (cf. Lansallos). The motto ’Sicut Umbra’ (As a Shadow) is equally legible and may be a shortened version of Psalm CIX v23. The gnomon is brass. On the horizontal strut is a decoration which may represent a swallow sitting on a wire.
The church will be found about 1km before the end of the B3247 at Cremyll on the Rame Peninsula, facing Plymouth Sound. Millbrook is the nearest community of any size.
