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 is a circular vertical Saxon dial with eleven lines, standing in relief on a square stone. There is a fleur de lys in each corner, though less clear than in the diagram by Green. The dial has eleven lines, 3 terminated by crosses, and a prominent gnomon hole. It is about 4m above ground level on the south wall facing St Michael’s Passage. The wall declines about 10 degrees west of south. An adjacent tablet indicates that the church was repaired and enlarged in 1822.
Green puts the date of the dial as similar to that of Warnford (SRN 3197), of which he says "There can be little doubt that this dial belonged to [the church founded in AD 681] and at the rebuilding of the church in the twelfth century was preserved and transferred to its present position."
The article in the second reference dates the dial to the tenth or eleventh century.
Refs:
(1) Green A R, SPCK 1926, Sundials, p18.
(2) http://www.ascorpus.ac.uk/vol4_chap7.php
1926
St Michael’s Church, St Michael’s Passage (between Kingsgate St and St Michael’s Road), Winchester, SO23 9PF, Hampshire
