Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719280

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57SW 57 51555 72040.

(NT 51555 72040) S D (NAT)

OS 25" map (1966)

Sundial, Lennoxlove: This sundial stands in the formal garden E of Lennoxlove. On a base of two octagonal steps stands a lady in 17th century court dress, supporting a polygonal block with seventeen dials, on her head. The figure is 3ft 11 1/2 ins high, the dial stone 1ft 2 1/2 ins high, and the steps are each 8 ins high. It comes from Northbar House, Renfrewshire (NS46NE 3) and bears the initials of Donald MacGilchrist, who built that house, with the date 1679.

T Ross 1890; RCAHMS 1924, visited 1920; C McWilliam 1978

The sundial is by James Gifford of West Linton. Information from RCAHMS (KD), March 2002.