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A scratched semicircle of lines on a south wall — a sundial for service times.
Also known as: Scratch dial, Lines radiating from a hole in a church wall, Old sundial on a church
Radiating lines around a hole where a rod stood, cut into the south wall beside a door. It is not a clock: the lines mark the times of services, so a dial tells you what the parish did rather than what the hour was.
Marks the times of services rather than dividing the day evenly, so the lines are unequally spaced and the dial reports the parish's timetable rather than the hour.
Reading one as a clock face produces nonsense; the spacing is liturgical.
Frequently found on a wall that is no longer outside, or beside a blocked doorway, because the building changed round it. A dial in an odd position is evidence of an earlier plan.
A small hole in dressed stone with straight lines radiating from it across a semicircle below, sometimes within a scratched circle.