View of sundial, Keithick House, from south

Description View of sundial, Keithick House, from south

Date 1/10/1995

Catalogue Number SC 774335

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 60408 CN

Scope and Content Gardens and Sundial, Grounds, Keithick House, Perth & Kinross, from south This shows the sundial on the lawn in front of the house which is a copy of a sundial at Stobhall Castle, Perth & Kinross. The cube with 4 hollow dials is supported on a Doric pillar and is surmounted by an ogee top with a ball finial. The cube in the centre of the shaft has four dials and a plaque at the other side which is engraved with the coat-of-arms of the Woods of Largo and Keithick. Both cubes have metal gnomons (metal blades which cast shadows onto the dial) which have been replaced wrongly. The shadow of the gnomons on the lower cube would indicate the time on the dials which were engraved with lines that point to Roman numerals which represent the hours of the day. The main dial-making period was from the 1620s to the 1730s which is perhaps when the Stobhall Castle dial was made but it is not known when this copy was manufactured. Keithick House was designed by David Whyte and built for W E Collinswood between 1818 and 1823. David Bryce (1803-76) changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar & Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Morant painted an Adam Revival decorative scheme in the drawing room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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