Sundial (no.35 on plan), gen. view from South. Digital image of D 59608 CN.

Description Sundial (no.35 on plan), gen. view from South. Digital image of D 59608 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757628

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59608 CN

Scope and Content Sundial from south, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the 50-faced obelisk sundial in the formal gardens below the castle which were laid out in the 1820s. These consist of a large parterre in the form of a saltire (Scottish flag). Stone terraces lead up to the castle and a rocky grotto is built under the arch (centre top). The gardens were restored and replanted in the 1950s. The sundial was commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Perth and designed and built by John Mylne III in 1630. The dial is inscribed with a poem in which the hours of the day speak to the reader: 'We are the hours on the pillar you see/Marked by the shadows that ever flee/And move with the sun in its course on high/Noting the time passing swiftly by'. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th century/early 19th century, and remodelled in the Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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