Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

PARK OF DRUMQUHASSLE, SUNDIAL TO SOUTH EAST OF HOUSELB3903

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000020 - See Notes
Date Added
05/09/1973
Local Authority
Stirling
Planning Authority
Stirling
Parish
Drymen
National Park
Loch Lomond And The Trossachs
NGR
NS 48280 86903
Coordinates
248280, 686903

Description

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Dated 1710. Sandstone ashlar columnar sundial with horizontal copper dial. Moulded base to column; moulded capital at apex; surmounted by corniced square-plan dial base. Octagonal dial inscribed 'Guhellmus Govane de Drumquhassle fecit' ('made by William Govane of Drumquhassle') and 'W.G. 1710' and 'K.E. 1710'. Much astrological information also given. Decorative pointer inscribed with 3 lines of Latin verse on each side.

Statement of Special Interest

B-Group with Park of Drumquhassle and Dovecot to N of house. A fine intact early 18th century columnar sundial. The dial is fairly lavishly inscribed. The initials 'W.G.' would appear to refer to William Govane and 'K.E.' to his wife, Katherine Edmonstone (they also constructed the dovecot in the following year). The lines of Latin verse along the pointer read as follows: 'Vita brevis, velut umbra levis, sic annichilatur/Hora fluit, nec morari potest/... Memor ...sibi(?) cura(?)./ Nam vadit subitoque cadit, dum stare putatur/Tempus ruit nec revocari potest/(Ex) hoc momento.. aeternita(s)' (Stevenson). There appears to have been a substantial residence on the site since at least the mid-later 16th century, when 'Drumquhassle Castle' was cited as the 'principal messuage' of the newly created barony of Drumquhassle. The house was rebuilt in 1839 by Robert Govane. The estate belonged to the Govanes for over 200 years from about the late 17th century until the 1910's when it was purchased by the family of the present (1999) occupant.

References

Bibliography

BUCHANAN'S POPULAR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO STRATHENDRICK, ABERFOYLE AND DISTRICT (undated, circa 1906) p92; RCAHMS, STIRLINGSHIRE - AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS, VOL II (1963) p408; W B Stevenson, 'Sundials of Six Scottish Counties Near Glasgow' in TRANSACTIONS OF THE GLASGOW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW SERIES, VOL IX, PART IV (1940) pp233-36; information courtesy of owner and of Jim Leiper, local historian (including information from 'The Register of the Great Seal Vol IV, 1546-80').

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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