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 sundial is set on a triangular stone shelf in the corner of the battlements on top of the tower. An inscription reads: ’This dial was given by Thos Law Hodges Esq / Anno Domini 1819 for the Regulation / of the clock in the Parish Church of / Benedon Lat 51d 3m 54s’.
The dial shows the hours in Roman numerals from 4am to 8pm in 30, 15, 10 and (in Arabic tens) 2 minute intervals. They are read from the outside of the dial and use the format XII and IIII for 12 midday and 4 o’clock respectively. The hour lines pass through the numerals. There is an Equation of Time ring of the Watch Faster / Watch Slower type and an 8 point compass. The gnomon is slightly bent.
