Select a site alphabetically from the choices shown in the box below. Alternatively, browse sculptural examples using the Forward/Back buttons.
Chapters for this volume, along with copies of original in-text images, are available here.
Object type: Sundial
Measurements: H. 19 cm (7.5 in)
Stone type: A calcareous stone too lichen encrusted for identification
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 381
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 194
(There may be more views or larger images available for this item. Click on the thumbnail image to view.)
There is a large drilled hole for the gnomon, and the base of the dial appears to have been trimmed by the setting of the base. The dial is divided into quadrants with irregular subdivisions between.
Appendix D item (sundials alleged to be of pre-Conquest date).
Despite the fact that this dial is carved on a tympanum rather than on an individual block, as for example at Lullington (Ill. 382), it appears to have been cut by the shaping of the stone and is a possible candidate for a pre-Conquest dial. The main subdivisions would give an octaval system and subdivisions possibly sixteenths. There are other dials at the church: one to the west of the tympanum and another on a window-head on the south face of the tower, but this seems the only possible candidate for a pre-Conquest dial.
