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 small dial scribed and painted in the apex of the frontage of the south porch. The date is unknown, but below it is a bold carved stone panel with the date 1579, and initials HP, RF, RB. Aligned numerals, those on the sides read from inside, VI - XII - IIII - VI (though the 6pm numeral is scribed ’IV’, to be read in a counterclockwise direction, a common practice.
RB represents Richard Beere, the penultimate abbot of Glastonbury. RF stands for Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester and Lord of the Manor of Taunton. The wyvern was the badge of the Pembroke family and the ’HP’ on the badge represents a member of this family or, possibly, the Reverend Hugo Pole, who was the rector of Chedzoy in 1523.
