Beith, Ayrshire - NS 357547

A photograph from the 1930s showed Somerville a complete obelisk similar to Kelburn 2. From 'Baillie's Hall', Kilwinning Abbey (Mr Watson, Ardlamont)

Only a fragment of the shaft remained in the kitchen garden when Somerville visited. The current remnants of the dial stand on an octagonal but not a Sun Moon Star plinth as Kelburn 2 does.

The North side of the remaining fragment has a rampant lion and space for a shield.

Visited 08 September 1985 - A. R. Somerville

 

 

There is a wonderful bakers in Kilwinning - sadly the last shop on the High St - which has meant that I have been to Kilwinning many a time. When there I've often nipped into Kilwinning Abbey for the fun of seeing a bit of Gothic and in the absent-minded rememberance that there was meant to be a dial there. As you will now know the dial was moved from Kilwinning Abbey decades but unfortunately I didn't know that until just now. However, the bakers does wonderful rolls, sugar ring donuts, crumpets etc.

In the twelfth century most of the lands of Beith came under the Abbot and Chapter of Kilwinning. The monks of Beith erected a manor farm house or grange at `Grangehill'.... ... Prior to the reformation the Abbot and Chapter of Kilwinning feued out the lands of the barony of Beith for small feuduties and these passed to Hugh, Fifth Earl of Eglinton.

http://www.monkton-farleigh.freeserve.co.uk/beith.htm

There are no images as I have not visited Grange Hill in Beith yet and Ross does not include it.