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.
A Semicircular Mass dial with numerals on the southeast corner of the south transept.
Earlier Mass dials didn’t have any numerals. This does, but the hour lines are still at uniform 15 degree spacing. Two semicircular lines form a chapter ring in which are Roman hour numerals, aligned with the hour lines and read from below or outside the dial, with half hour points between them. Oddly, the line labelled as XII is not vertical, making one wonder if the dial has been moved. If so, the gnomon hole has been redrilled to allow the dial to be used where it now is which, incidentally, declines about 18 degrees east of due south.
There is a very large central gnomon hole (gnomon missing, inevitably).
The transept was built in the thirteenth century, the windows added in the fifteenth. The poem just above the dial was written by Pope after two lovers were killed by lightning.
See also SRN 7012: a west-facing vertical dial on the west end of the same church. Also, don’t miss the interior of the church.
2010
St Michael’s Church (1), Main Road, Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5RJ, Oxfordshire
