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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of the type, and the same arrangementof facets is found only at Invermay (Fig. 1617). At top and bottom thehead has five sides, and cut horizontally in the centre it presents ten sides.This results from the alternating triangular arrangement, m which we havea triangle resting on its base, then one resting on its apex, and so on. The dials are hollowed out with figures of various shapes. In one thecnomon is formed by the nose of a grotesque face; in another by thepoints of a thistle-leaved ornament. The under surfaces have no dials,except on one small heart-shaped lozenge, but are decorated instead with * SAILORS. SUKDIALS — 442 SUNDIALS heraldic and other devices. These comprise the royal arms as borne inScotland, with the collar and badge of the Thistle. There are also theinitials of Charles I. and his queen, Henrietta Maria, for whom Charles issaid to have had the dial made. From the Excerpts from the Masters ofWorks Accounts, supplied to us by Dr. Dickson, and quoted further on.
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Fig. 1614.—Holyiood. we learn that this sundial was made by John Mylne, the kings mastermason, in 1633, with the assistance of his two sons, John and Alexander,for which he Avas paid the sum of £408, 15s. 6d. Scots. The dial andpedestal measure 6 feet 7 inches high, and the total height, including thebase, is 10 feet, and the width at the ground is 10 feet 3 inches. It is SUNDIALS 443 SUNDIALS stated that this dial was lying broken and uncared for, and that it wasput in order by command of the queen. Warriston House, Edinburgh.—The dial here (Fig. 1615) is probably allthat remains of the old mansion-house of Warriston. It has had a steppedbase, like that at Holyrood, but only a portion of it now remains;

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