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 is on the tower, slightly canted to face south. The motto reads: ’Vigil Ora Transit Hora’ (Watch, pray, the hour passes), carved down the sides of the dialplate with the letters off-set in zig-zag formation. It uses a cross for noon and IIII for 4pm, and shows 6am to 6pm in hours and half hours. It was installed on the church in 1898 from a cottage in the village. The gnomon is formed from a thin bar and has one curved supporter.
The dial was reported missing in Nov 2007, the mounting hooks remaining in place, but was restored by 2023, possibly in 2006. Better photographs requested.
2023
2023
St Edmund’s Parish Church, Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire
