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Architecture Notes
Event ID 773112
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773112
The Sundial Pillar is built from stones which are named, from various quarries, like the commemorative Pillars.
REFERENCE:
NMRS LIBRARY
Historical File - "Meadows West, Sundial"
Measured sketch by A. Rollo, 1948
PUBLIC LIBRARY, EDINBURGH ROOM
Refer to a small volume entitled 'Model Dwelling Houses' by Sir James Gowans, Architect, Lord Dean of Guild, published in 1886. This gives a description and illustrations of the model dwellings erected for the 1886 Exhibition, and also gives illustrations and full descriptions with the inscriptions and the sun-dials' time mottoes, of the 'Prince Albert Victor Sun Dial' and 'The Memorial Masons' Pillars'.
See also:
NT27SE 1983.00 Edinburgh, The Meadows, General
1983.02 Edinburgh, The Meadows (West), Mason's Pillars
1983.03 Edinburgh, The Meadows, Edinburgh International Exhibition 1886 1983.04 Edinburgh, The Meadows (East), Pillars
1983.05 Edinburgh, Middle Meadow Walk, Pillars
1983.06 Edinburgh, Middle Meadow Walk
