Before
the installation of the clock, the time was told by the sundial over
the south porch entrance. This is dated 1623 and carries a Latin inscription
from Ovid's, Meta-morphosis, Lit IV-X, lines 224-6, slightly altered.
It reads thus:
Ille
ego sum, qui longum metior annum omnia qui video, per quem videt omnia
tellus, mundi oculus
(I am he, who measures out the long year, who beholds all things and
through who, the earth sees all things, the eye, in fact, of the universe.)
The sundial
was supplemented with small mass clocks which were much simpler sundials
indicating only the times of worship. These were carved on the south
east face of the porch and are still discernible, though much eroded.
