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 near the putting green. Motto: ‘Make the passing shadow serve thy will’. No compass rose, but letters for directions included. Uses XII and IIII. Numerals read from outside the dial. Gnomon gap present.
Rectangular-section rough concrete pillar, resembling a gate post. Too tall (approx. 1450mm) for the dial to be read comfortably. North side smooth with three plaques: ’TO COMMEMORATE / WORK DONE FOR / BRODICK IMPROVEMENT / TRUST’, ’JAMES C. INGLIS’, ’CAPTAIN JAMES HAMILTON’. South side has the remains of fixing holes.
This dial is clearly not on its original pedestal. It is believed that the concrete post (together with the older dial plate and gnomon) was erected as the support for a drinking fountain by the Brodick Improvement Trust in the late 1950s (information from John Sillars, who was Secretary at the time). However, Captain James Hamilton was Chairman of the Trust in the 1930s and 1940s. James Inglis is thought to have been a Minister here in the 1930s.
2014
2014
Seafront, Brodick, Isle of Arran, Strathclyde Region
