Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wefind from Scotts History of Berzvick,p. 306, that Johne Orde the younger was charged for taking away the dyallthat was at the Newgate, which is nowstanding in his garden. As also thesame hath taken away the sone dyallthat Thomas Smith sett up on thechurch wall which was a benefit to allpersons that came that way. While on this subject we may men-tion that the dial on Glasgow Cathedral,referred to by Miss Gatty, is not therenow. Junes House, Morayshire(seeYol. ii.p. 202).—There are numerous dialson this house, which is one of greatinterest, as it is known, from an ac-count of the building kept by the laird,to have been designed by WilliamAytoun, maister massoun at Heriotthis work. As might be expected, thedials here resemble those on HeriotsHospital. SUNDIALS 377 SUNDIALS Alloa, Clackmannanshire.^This very line dial* (Fig. 1506) occurs onthe front wall of a house in the Kirkgate, Alloa. The supporting bracketis quite dilFerent from those at Heriots, and so is the ornament along the
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Fifi. 1506.—Alloa. top. A shield beneath, surrounded with a nicely-carved wreath, bears thedate 1G95, with the initials of Tobias Baak, or Bachup, and his wife, * We are indebted for a large photograph of this dial to Mr. Adam Frame,architect, Alloa. SUNDIALS 378 SUNDIALS Margaret Lindsay. He was a mason in Alloa, and built the handsomehouse, on which the dial occurs, for himself.*

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