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 surface of this dial on the porch is spalling so that parts of it are indistinct. It has possibly three lines of inscriptions at the top. The very top one is unreadable. Below that is what appears to be ’. . . OLD’ and the date, 1616. Below are two names (the second is Cowper) of churchwardens. There is a small semicircle at the root of the gnomon, oddly with modern screw head in centre. The dial shows 6am to 6pm in half hours with three dot inward half hour markers. Roman (outside) and Arabic (inside) numerals are used but only some are visible. Uses IIII. Roman numerals for 6am 7am 8am, 9am and 6pm are written as IV IIV IIIV, XI and IV.This is not a mistake but the adoption of the "anticlockwise convention" in which the component letters of Roman numerals are read in anticlockwise order. The noon marking is not visible. Solid right triangular sheet metal gnomon.
