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.
The dial is a stone slab set into the street wall of the house, at about the floor level of the second floor. The wall faces roughly 5° east of south, but the dial is canted round to face about 15° west. Could this have been to make it more visible from some vantage point?
It shows 7am to 7pm in upright Arabic numerals, with hour lines to a semicircle around the gnomon root.
The reference below states that the dial carried the initials W.B., which the author interpreted as being Willian Bryson/Brysone, a wealthy cloth merchant and tailor in the 1640s who had purchased the house and added the extension. Page 109 says that the dial must have been broken between 1843 and 1889 and the eastern half injured, but restored by the author by 1910.
Ref: ’Oldest House in Glasgow’, Dr William Gemmell, 1910.
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Provand’s Lordship, 3 Castle Street, Glasgow, G4 0RH, Strathclyde Region
