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 over the south porch is probably the fourth replica replacement, the current one celebrating the bi-centenary of the rebuilding of the church in 1822. Across the top is ’G. W. 1919 J. W. B.’, and in a box around the gnomon is: ’G.W./1864/W. F./ W. W./1736/W. R. 2022’. The dial has upright hour numerals VI - XII - IV - VI, with hour lines to the box, and short half hour lines. The blade gnomon has a single straight support. All the furniture is black on a white ground.
The postcard of 1917 shows a dial in the same location with ’GW 1864 WF / WW / 1736 / WR’, so presumably there was originally a dial here in 1736, replaced in 1864 and 1919, and now again in 2022.
JWB refers to a benefactor John Warren Barry, whose great-grandfather contributed to the rebuilding of 1822, but there is no information on the other initials.
2022
1917
Old St Stephen’s Church, Pasture Bamk, Robin Hood’s Bay, Fylingdales, YO22 4PN, Yorkshire (N)
