The missing gnomon

DSCF3961Was this a doorway, was it blocked up for some reason? It is on the south side of the church of St Nicholas in Uphill, the village where I live. I think the hole was for the gnomon of a sun-dial, the pointer which cast a shadow; you can see lines which would have indicated the hour. I don’t know what the other circles are, one of them seems a lopsided cross… why wasn’t it straight? and the other marks are not decipherable… at least not by me!DSCF3961

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