John Knox House Sundial - Edinburgh, Scotland
N 55° 57.024 W 003° 11.110
30U E 488436 N 6200574
The historic John Knox House is located on High Street (also known as the Royal Mile) in Edinburgh, Scotland. There's a wall-mounted sundial on the house.
Waymark Code: WMEYF8
Location: Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/22/2012
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A nearby information marker provides some additional information about this historic house and its sundial:
"John Knox House, to your left, and Mowbray House, behind you, are probably the oldest houses in Edinburgh. They give us some idea of what Edinburgh looked like around 1600. The earliest parts of these houses are medieval, but buildings in Edinburgh were always being extended and altered. The front of John Knox House was built in about 1556 for James Mosman, a goldsmith whose father made the Scottish crown, and his wife Mariota Arres. You can see their initials in the plaque on the wall.
The couple also decorated their house with a sundial showing Moses; this was a popular image of the time, though more common in nobles' courts than commoners' houses. Perhaps the Moses sundial was a way of showing what fashionable company James Mosman kept as a respected craftsman.
John Knox, an important and controversial religious reformer in Scotland during the 1500s, may never have lived here. But the tradition that this was his house saved it from being demolished in improvement schemes. You can find out more about the house, John Knox, and James Mosman inside.
Both these houses were on the edge of the walled city of Edinburgh. Down the road, at the junction with St. Mary's Street, stood the main entrance gate - the Netherbow Port. You can see its outline marked by brass tiles in the road."
Sundial Type: Vertical - Wall mounted dial plate
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