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Latitude: 56.4944 / 56°29'39"N
Longitude: -3.4105 / 3°24'37"W
OS Eastings: 313252
OS Northings: 734477
OS Grid: NO132344
Mapcode National: GBR V7.5X6L
Mapcode Global: WH6PZ.L145
Plus Code: 9C8RFHVQ+PQ
Entry Name: Sundial, Stobhall Castle
Listing Name: Stobhall, Sundial in Octagonal Garden to Ne of Dowery House
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330275
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB79
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Stobhall Castle, Sundial
ID on this website: 200330275
Location: Cargill
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathmore
Parish: Cargill
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Sundial
Possibly 17th century. Detached sundial sited in Octagonal Garden to NE of Dowery House. Elaborate facet dial surmounted by hemisphere dial and supported by ribbed hemisphere and thick baluster, lower parts said to be later.
Formerly listed as 'Stobhall Sundial No 2 Approx 35 Yards North of Caretakers House and Garages'. Part of A Group with HB numbers 5473-5, 5477, 5479-81 and 43856. This is an interesting example of a facet dial, somewhat like a reduced version of the 1675 example at Pitmedden Garden in Aberdeenshire. The unusual hemispherical finial sits very firmly on what may be a truncated neck, but the squat baluster pediment is quite
typical. There are 2 further separately listed sundials in the garden of Stobhall. The obelisk-type dial in the Formal Garden to the N of Dowery House and a terminal-type dial attached to the terrace wall located to the SW of Dowery House.
Dowery House dates from the 17th century and it was during this period, when gracious living began to flourish, that formal gardens were being developed around traditional tower houses in the form of 'parterres and knot gardens, sundials and fountains' (Buxbaum, p7). Intense scientific interest led to early publications on the construction of sundials 'in which definite rules are laid down for the guidance of the dial-maker, so as to ensure his producing a work which will accurately note the passing hours' (MacGibbon & Ross, p357).
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