In the south porch of the church, over the south door

First recorded in Haigh 1846

dedication unknown

Good

On a sub-rectangular panel is a large circular relief dial delimited by a low relief frame having a median roll moulding. The gnomon hole is represented by an irregular hollow in the centre of the dial, the lower half of which is calibrated. There is a pair of lateral lines, a vertical, and a line mid-way between each lateral and the vertical. Each line is incised, terminates on the frame, and is crossed short of its outer end by an incised line with drilled ends. From the outer edge of the frame develop four plant stems, one running into each of the corners of the panel, and each terminating in a convex-sided, pointed-ended, hollowed leaf. This is flanked by two similar out-turned leaves, the hollows of which are carried down the short stems.

Although this piece is ex situ, a pre-Conquest date can be argued from the very close relationship between it and the dial from near-by Corhampton (no. 1), which is in situ in a late pre-Conquest fabric. A very similar dial is also known from Winchester (St Michael; Ill. 671), although again ex situ.

Tenth to eleventh century

Haigh 1846, 410, 414, fig. on 410; Hussey 1852, 199; Haigh 1857, 178, fig. on 178; Way 1868, 211; Haigh 1879, 135, 155 - 6, fig. on 155; Slessor 1888, 7 - 8; Allen 1889, 201; Gatty 1889, 424; Syers 1899, 18; Gatty 1900, 67 - 8; Nisbett 1905 - 7, 37; Johnston 1907, 17; Doubleday and Page 1903, 240; Page 1908a, 272; Jessep 1913, 17; Green 1926, 18 - 19, fig. on 18; Green 1928, 491, 493, 497; Cottrill 1931, appendix; Cole 1939, 148; Zinner 1939, 8 - 9; Green 1943, 273; Cox and Jowitt 1949, 178; Green and Green 1951, 58 - 9, pl. XIX; Crowley 1956, 176; Taylor 1962a, 169; Zinner 1964, iv, 210, 216; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 640; Radford 1966a, 189; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 19, 25, fig. 8; Bowen and Page 1967, 288; Pevsner and Lloyd 1967, 17, 642; Tweddle 1986b, i, 84, 187 - 8, ii, 503 - 4, iii, pl. 111b