Sundial - Church of St. Margaret, Church Road, Clenchwarton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. PE34 4DY - Sundials on Waymarking.com

This small parish church is of an aisleless construction and has a C14th brick west tower, not common even in Norfolk, a Perpendicular nave of carstone and ragstone with ashlar dressings and a much later chancel, 1864, built of carstone, ashlar and brick, now Grade II* listed. The roofs are lead covered.

The gabled C15th brick south porch has flanking side buttresses, the front ones extending into flattened pinnacles. Subsidiary statuary niches within engaged pinnacles flank the arched doorway having a hood mould on weathered animal stops. There are two-light cusped side windows and an old sundial in the gable. The interior of the porch is barrel vaulted supported on four ogee moulded arched ribs and a double wave moulded inner doorway. The porch was restored in 1861.

The sundial is quite a simple affair, just an oblong piece of limestone with a rusty scrolled gnomon. The hour marks are difficult to see, a small indentation with a very short line running towards the gnomon fixing and no indication of an actual hour. I estimate that the marks are 15mins apart.

Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Norfolk Buildings, amended and added to with own on-site observations.

Co-ordinates are for the south porch.

Sundial Type: Vertical - Wall mounted dial plate Related Web Site: Not listed

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