Built into south wall of nave, outside, east of blocked doorway

First noticed by M. J. Hare in early 1970s; presumably exposed during plaster stripping, as not mentioned in Taylor and Taylor 1965-78

All Saints

Intact, somewhat bruised, and moderately heavily weathered

The stone is circular with a plain outer frame delimited by an incised line. There is a central circular gnomon hole, irregularly splayed towards the front. The calibration, in incised lines, consists of the mid tide lines at 6 am and 6 pm extending roughly horizontally to touch the edge of the stone. The mid tide lines at 9 am, noon, and 3 pm, touch the inner edge of the frame, and are crossed short of their ends. The ends of the line and the cross-arm terminate in drilled holes. The intervening lines, at 7.30 am, 10.30 am, 1.30 pm, and 4.30 pm, marking the beginnings and ends of the tides, terminate on the inner edge of the frame; they are not crossed.

The calibration of the dial is done in the standard pre-Conquest fashion, employed also at Corhampton, Warnford, and Winchester (St Michael) 1 in Hampshire. The dial itself, however, is circular, as opposed to circular on a rectangular frame as with the other Hampshire dials. The close comparison between these dials, at least in calibration, suggests a similarity in date. That would suggest a date for the present dial in the eleventh century. Taylor and Taylor have assigned parts of the nave walls of the church at Hannington to the tenth or eleventh centuries (Taylor and Taylor 1965–78, i, 282–3), and it may be that the dial is actually still in situ.

Tenth to eleventh centuries

Hare 1980, 199 - 201, fig. 4