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 south-facing dial over the porch.
The dialplate is rectangular with an ornately arched top. It is canted slightly to the right in order to face due south. It sits in a rectangular recess with three stones shaped to match the sinuous curved top of the dial. The impression is that an existing dial was shoehorned into an exiting recess. The porch is fourteenth century, the dialplate appears Baroque, so less old.
Hour lines, 6am to 6pm, run from a semicircle around the gnomon foot to the rectangular chapter ring. In the chapter ring are upright Roman numerals which use a cross patty at noon and IV at 4pm.
Above the dial is the motto: "Disce dies numerare tuos" [Learn to value your days]. Above the motto is a date, variously thought to be "unreadable but ending in . . XII" or "1846".
There is a simple strip gnomon and a single supporter. The gnomon foot stands in a semicircular recess. The supporter stands on a metal plate recessed into the stone, so it appears that the gnomon originally stood on a semicircular plate, also recessed into the dial.
2010
St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Lane, Church End, Swerford, OX7 4BA, Oxfordshire
