The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1043.—North Barr. Front View. North Barr, Renfrewshire.—This singular and graceful sundial ( and 1644) stands in the centre of the old-fashioned, semi-decayed SUNDIALS — 469 — SUNDIALS gardens of North Barr, at a distance of a few minutes walk up the Clydefrom Erskine Ferry. There is something extremely droll and quaint inthe conception of the lady who supports the dial-stone, with her remarkableheadpiece and picturesque seventeenth century costume, as she stands. Fig. 1644.—North
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1043.—North Barr. Front View. North Barr, Renfrewshire.—This singular and graceful sundial ( and 1644) stands in the centre of the old-fashioned, semi-decayed SUNDIALS — 469 — SUNDIALS gardens of North Barr, at a distance of a few minutes walk up the Clydefrom Erskine Ferry. There is something extremely droll and quaint inthe conception of the lady who supports the dial-stone, with her remarkableheadpiece and picturesque seventeenth century costume, as she stands. Fig. 1644.—North Barr. Back View. gracefully holding a rose at her breast and smiling on the spectator. Thetwo hair curls standing out in relief very considerably heighten her oddeffect, and at the same time give apparent strength to her slenderneck to carry the overhanging and weighty dial. The dial itself isan octagonal block with seventeen faces. On the perpendicular faces SUNDIALS — 470 — SUNDIALS there are cup-hollows alternating with plain face dials. The gnomon ofthe west hollow is a piece of metal stretched from side to side, with itsunder edge sen-ated like a saw. The hollows on one of the last faces arefour heart sliapes, disposed somewhat as they are at Holy rood. On thehorizontal dial, which is 14| inches wide, there occur the initials ofDonald Macgilchrist, with the date 1679. North Barr was for genera-tions in the possession of a branch of the Stewarts of Darnley. TheNorth Barr Stewarts became extinct in the seventeenth century, and thelast of them alienated most o
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