152 KIRKDALE CHXJR6H, 



and protected by an antique porch ; which n^ 

 doubt greatly facilitated its preservation. 



The stone is 7 ft. 5 in. long, and I ft. 10 in. hisrh, 

 which is divided into three parts of unequal dimen- 

 sions. The first and third compartments contain 

 the largest inscription, which is the memorial of 

 the church, and the person by whom it was erected. 

 The middle one has been a dial, over which, and in 

 the semicircle which encloses the radii, or hour 

 lines, which divide it into eight equal parts, is the 

 title of the dial ; and the third inscription is a single 

 line below the dial, or semicircle, recording the 

 name of the maker, and the minister who assisted 

 him. The first inscription, which occupies the 

 first and third divisions, reduced to modern charac- 

 ters, and written in full, is as follows : 



ORM GAMAL 



SUNA, BOHTE SANCTUS 



GREGOR1US MIN 



STER, THONNE HI 



T WES ML TOBRO 



CAN, AND TO FALAN AND HE 



HIT LET MACAN NEVVAN FROM 



GRUNDE, CHR1STE AND SANCTUS GRE- 



GORIUS, 



IN EADWARD DAGUM SYNING ; 

 IN TOST1 DAGUM EORL. 



LITERAL TRANSLATION, 



Orm, the sonofGamal, bought St. Gregory'* 

 Church, when it was all broken down and fallen; 

 and he caused it to be mace new from the ground ; 



