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.
Rectangular vertical dial, east-declining on the wall of the Old Post Office.
This is a delightful dial painted directly on the Hornton stone. It is protected, but also sometimes shaded, by the thatched roof. The dial has a black border on a white ground. There is a large semicircle round the gnomon root. Black painted hour and half hour lines radiate from it, the half hour lines stopping before the rectangular chapter ring. The upright Roman hour numerals, in white on black, have no serifs. They use XII at noon, IV at 4pm.
The wall declines about 15 degrees east of due south and the dial shows hours from just after 5am to just after 5pm.:
The gnomon is a thin bar with a straight rod support, standing at about the 10:45am position on the dial to make it point due north.
Above the gnomon, in a white-painted circle, is written: ’C / S . E / 17 52 / 30 M’.
1752 is, presumably, the date.
Note that Wroxton has several other interesting sundials: SRN 2251, 2758, 3959, 3961 and, in Fairleigh Dickinson University: SRN 2778, 6999, 7001
2010
Old Post Office, Main Street, Wroxton, OX15 6PY, Oxfordshire
