SCRATCH DIALS & MASS DIALS
The emphasis of this project is weighted in favour of medieval dials. I shall refer to them throughout as scratch dials, a term with a specific meaning that can usefully be applied more generally. Usage here will incorrectly include Saxon dials which date from the c7, together with medieval mass dials and tide dials. They may differ in purpose, in form, in construction, and from crude to elegant. Most dials that feature in this section will be ones scratched directly into the stone wall of a church between C14 and C16 . Early dials were intended to mark the general passage of the day rather than a specific o’clock, at a time when the concept of time (as we know it) was fluid and might even differ between adjacent villages. As understanding of ‘time’ advanced – especially with the invention of clocks in C14 – so did the construction and accuracy of the dials. Eventually they were outcompeted by clocks and became obsolete.
ALSTONE Glos – St Margaret of Antioch
ASHILL Som – Blessed Virgin Mary
BATCOMBE Dorset – St Mary Magdalene
BISHOP’S CAUNDLE Dorset – St Peter & St Paul
BLACKFORD Somerset – St Michael
BRADFORD ABBAS Dorset – St Mary the Virgin
BRAMPTON BRYAN . Herefordshire – St Barnabas
BRATTON Wilts – St James the Great
CHARLTON HORETHORNE Som – St Peter and St Paul
CHESELBOURNE Dorset – St Martin
CHURCH STRETTON . Shrop – St Laurence
CLUNGUNFORD . Shrop – St Cuthbert
CREWKERNE Somerset – St Bartholomew
EARDISLAND . Hereford – St Mary
GLANVILLES WOOTTON (1) Dorset Jan 21 – St Mary
GLANVILLE’S WOOTTON (2) Dorset Apr 21 – St Mary the Virgin
HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE Somerset – St Mary
HERMITAGE Dorset – St Mary (2)
MAIDEN NEWTON Dorset 1 – St Mary
MAIDEN NEWTON Dorset 2 – St Mary
MANACCAN Cornwall – St Manaccus
MANNINGFORD BRUCE Wilts – St Peter
MINTERNE MAGNA Dorset – St Andrew
ODCOMBE Somerset – St Peter and St Paul
PEWSEY Wilts – St John the Baptist
PULHAM Dorset – St Thomas à Becket
PURSE CAUNDLE Dorset – St Peter
SANDFORD ORCAS Dorset – St Nicholas
SOUTH CADBURY Somerset – St Thomas à Becket
STANTON ST BERNARD Wilts – All Saints
STOCKBRIDGE Hants – St Peter Old Church
SUTTON BINGHAM Somerset – ALL SAINTS
THORNFORD Dorset – St Mary Magdalene
WAYFORD Somerset – St Michael & All angels
WAYFORD Somerset – St Michael & All angels
WENTNOR Shropshire – St Michael & All Angels
WINTERBOURNE BASSETT Wilts – St Katherine & St Peter
WORMINGTON Glos. – St Katherine (also, St Catherine)
UPAVON Wilts – St Mary the Virgin
