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, which declines S28°35’E, is at the west end of the south facing wall.
This church is dedicated to St Martin of Tours. According to tradition Martin was a 4th centuary Roman soldier. He took pity on a beggar on a freezing night and cut his cloak with his sword and gave half to te poor man. The badge of the Parish is a shield with eight alternate silver and red horizontal bands as a symbolic reference to the cloak. Hence the Roman sword and the shield decorating the dial.
There are 4 declination lines: Solstices & Equinox plus 11th November (St Martin’s Day). Noon is marked as Celtic Cross.
Motto: From the rising of the sun (Psalm 113 v3)
See BSS Bulletin Vol 21 (i) March 2009 p 8.
2011
Grouville Church, La Rue a la Don, Grouville, Jersey
