The Ben Johnson PH, Weston-on-the-Green

Rectangular vertical declining dial over the pub’s porch. The dial is supported in a wooden frame. It shows 6am to 5:15pm in half and quarter hours with black lines and upright Arabic hour numerals on a pale ground. The angles of the hour lines indicate a location that declines around 8 degrees, whereas the pub wall declines about 13 degrees east of south. So the dial has probably been moved from its original location. Indeed, a photo taken in 1946 shows it in another position. Here, it is shaded by thatch in late afternoon. The stone dialplate has a horizontal crack through the gnomon support. The gnomon is a simple metal bar with curly decorations on its supporter. Above the dial is the date ’1749’. The pub is thought to be about this age, although Ben Johnson is said to have been a frequent visitor over a hundred years earlier..