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 shows hours IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from the outside, divided to half and quarter hours, and 3-minute divisions in the outer circle. The half-hour lines are accentuated with twin foliate motifs. It has an anticlockwise EOT table with minutes and seconds for the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th (Feb 28th) of each month, and ’Sun too slow’, ’Sun too fast’. 8-point compass rose labelled to NE etc. Signed at the south ’James Walsh sculpsit’ in copperplate script. There is a hairline stress crack across the dial plate.
The plinth, about 9 m south of the church, is a hexagonal column 810 high on a stone base - the remains of a mediaeval cross-shaft?
See also Ref 2 for more detailed information, held as BSS Report 3658b.
Ref 1: Arthur Mee’s ’Kings England’ series, Shropshire volume.
Ref 2: John Homfray: SDFAS (now The Arts Society Shrewsbury) record of the sundial, 2015.
