Sundial (no.35 on plan), view from West. Digital image of D 59616 CN.

Description Sundial (no.35 on plan), view from West. Digital image of D 59616 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757631

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59616 CN

Scope and Content Sundial from west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the 4.11m high obelisk sundial which stands in the centre of the formal gardens attached to the castle. The dial has over 50 faces across its lower column, central polyhedron, and upper obelisk, which tell the time in most of the capitals of Europe. It is set into bands of wavy-patterned gravel which recall a detail from the Drummond family coat of arms. 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 visible today consists 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 or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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