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 stands in the church’s Garden of Rembrance. Few details are available but the east face of the slate gnomon is inscribed ’SUNDIAL’. The circular dial stands on an octagonal sectioned baluster pedestal on a square base, itself on an octagonal step. Inscriptions on the base show that the dial is dedicated to the memory of John Bunyan, who was the MInister of St Mark’s 1672 - 1688, and is also a memorial to those who died in the Great War.
It is probable that the pedestal at least is of the sundial that was erected in 1928 for the tercentenary of Bunyan’s birth, recorded by Vera Brittain on p 412 of "In the Steps of John Bunyan", Rich & Cowan, 1950.
