A four-faced sundial in this old market town. - Sundials on Waymarking.com

This is an old village market cross, with a circular base and an octagonal shaft. It was removed to Ham Court in the C18th and converted to a sundial. In 1920 it was returned to Upton-upon-Severn for use as a war memorial placed in the yard of the old parish church. It is grade II listed and topped by a much decayed iron wind vane, no cardinal points or vane left on it.

There are two brass plaques recording the dedication as a war memorial, to both WWI and WWII. The WWI inscription, quite well worn due to polishing and the open-air environment reads:

          This Ancient Parish Cross
               was placed here
             in Memory of the Men
          who fell in the Great War
                  1914-1918
          whose Names are Recorded
            in the Parish Church

The WWII inscription reads:

          and in Memory of the Men
          who fell in World War II
                  1939-1945
          whose Names are Recorded
            in the Parish Church

The sundial has four faces and four wrought iron gnomons. The faces each have hours marked in Roman numerals, east from V to XI, the south from VI to VI - hour marks each hour but numbered every other one - the west from I to VII - again hourly marks but numbered as the south. Although there is a gnomon on the north face there are no numbers and the hour marks are indistinct.

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

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