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.
Vertical dial painted on the south wall to the right of the porch.
The dial is flaking badly but still legible. It has presumably been repainted a number of times. It has a golden flaming sun around the gnomon root. Black hour lines radiate from this to the rectangular chapter ring. There are also shorter half hour lines with fleurs-de-lys. The upright Roman numerals from 6am to 6pm use XII at noon and IIII at 4pm. The morning side is reasonably accurate, but the dial faces 7 degrees west of south, and the lines after 2pm are less accurate. It appears that some of the half hour lines have been extended to the inner circle and misinterpreted as hour lines: 4:30 has been labelled as 5pm, 5:30 as 6pm.
It is to be hoped that the next painting will restore the correct delineation. A photograph taken in 2012 shows more deterioration.
The gnomon fixings are on the noon line but the gnomon is bent, possibly to the correct position for a west decliner.
Note that Wroxton has several other interesting sundials: SRN 2251, 3959, 3960, 3961.
See http://www.sundials.co.uk/~oxon.htm
Churches of the Banbury Area, Walker, Kineton, 1975.
2010
All Saints’ Church, Church Street, Wroxton, OX15 6QE, Oxfordshire
