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Object type: Sundial
Measurements:
Stone type: Medium-grained, well sorted sandstone with sub-angular grains and limonitic nodules up to 15mm in size. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), limonite nodules yellowish brown (10YR 5/6). Middle Jurassic sandstone, from slopes of the Hambleton Hills, immediately to the east of the site
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 1187
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 301
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Appendix D item (sundials alleged to be of pre-Conquest date).
Leake 3 is a stone bearing a very worn semicircular sundial. It is built into the south wall of the south aisle of the nave to the east of the porch, although it appears to be re-set in its present position. The stone measures about 47 cm across and 46 cm in height. What now remains of the dial is an incised semicircle and a central gnomon-hole containing the stump of a rusted iron fitting. (There are two iron pins to the right of this hole.) At the top left, above the semicircle, there are very weathered traces of a possible incised letter. Green's plate suggests that this could have been an A (Green 1928, fig. 16). The indentations in the stone are compatible with this reading. Nothing more is now legible. There are inscriptions across the tops of eleventh-century semicircular sundials at Great Edstone, Kirkdale and Old Byland, all of which are in Yorkshire (Lang 1991, 46, 133–5, 163–6, 195, ills. 451–3, 568, 570, 729–30).
