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

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