Hello Frank and all, We have discussed on this list the mass dial on the old Saxon church, St Gregory's Minster, Kirkland, North Yorkshire. See http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/scand/kirkdale.html and click on the picture for the slide show. I visited the church and took pictures of the dial over twenty years ago but did not realize until today that there was a personal connection. The inscription notes that Orm, Gamal's son, was the benefactor who rebuilt the church and sundial about 1055 AD, before the Norman Conquest. I learned today from Ronald Ormerod's website www.ormerod.uk.net that Orm was the primogenitor of the Ormerod family. My wife's maiden name is Ormerod and she is from Lancashire where this name is common, but rare in the rest of the world.
As I have often said, "Everything I've needed to know, I've learned from sundials". Regards, Roger Bailey -
