Trinity House, Rigging Loft, sundial

HER Number:
12297

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Trinity House, Rigging Loft, sundial

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Garden Ornament

Site Type: Specific:
Sundial

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
A small square wooden sundial set up on a wall in the courtyard of Trinity House, inscribed to 'John Welford. Master. Anno 1721'. The sundial was probably moved from the Banqueting Hall which was built in 1721.

Easting:
425350

Northing:
564000

Grid Reference:
NZ425350564000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brenda Whitelock, 1992, Timepieces of Newcastle, pp 55-56; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 475