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BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.

Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.

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Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh

11 diptych dials on walls. McGibbon & Ross, Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland, 1889-92, Vol 5, pp374-6. Ref: Gatty, 1900, p 143: ’There are eleven of them, eight being on the outside walls, and three facing in the courtyard’.

 

Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013
Image of dial 2070
2013

Heriot’s Hospital, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Lothian Region

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2070 16xx 1988 55.94611, -3.19278
N 55° 56' 46", W 03° 11' 34"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NT256732
Condition Type Access
Poor Mult Diptych Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
William Aytoun Stone 300 square each