{"id":1043,"date":"2010-09-26T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2010-09-26T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T17:06:32","slug":"kirkbean-sundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2010\/09\/kirkbean-sundial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkbean Sundial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situated just inland from the Solway on the Scottish side of the border is the village of Kirkbean.<\/p>\n

\"Standing<\/a>

Standing about 1.5m tall is the Kirkbean sundial<\/p><\/div>\n

The small parish church is currently occupied by the Church of Scotland.<\/p>\n

Just outside the perimeter wall of the church stands an impressive sundial atop a stone plinth.<\/p>\n

\"Sundial<\/a>

Sundial at Kirkbean, Scotland<\/p><\/div>\n

Assorted text is written on the face of the sundial. As far as we can make out the third ring of text from the centre appears to be a list of countries.<\/p>\n

Some reports date the sundial to 1826.<\/p>\n

According to Historic Scotland<\/a> the Sundial is inscribed “Robert Palmer fecit, 1826”.<\/p>\n

It is a slate dial \u00a0with bronze gnomon raised on fluted red ashlar column with\u00a0plinth.<\/p>\n

It was given Grade ‘C’ listing in 1986.<\/p>\n

Little is known about the history of this sundial except that a Robert Palmer, a schoolm<\/a>aster, is attributed to making sundials in Currie (1836) and Riccarton (1829). He may also be connected with a sundial at Kenmure Castle.<\/p>\n

He was a teacher of elemental astronomy and dialling. \u00a0 Possibly this sundial was one of his early works?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Situated just inland from the Solway on the Scottish side of the border is the village of Kirkbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[908,920,921,824,909,914,596,915,913,910,917,907,919,911,922,912,235],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non_mechanicl_clocks","tag-5m","tag-aster","tag-astronomy","tag-church-of-scotland","tag-face","tag-fecit","tag-gnomon","tag-grade-c","tag-historic-scotland","tag-list-of-countries","tag-making-sundials","tag-perimeter-wall","tag-riccarton","tag-robert-palmer","tag-scottish-side","tag-slate","tag-solway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}