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Latitude: 55.7939 / 55°47'38"N
Longitude: -4.861 / 4°51'39"W
OS Eastings: 220737
OS Northings: 659328
OS Grid: NS207593
Mapcode National: GBR 30.7ZZY
Mapcode Global: WH2N1.9MHP
Plus Code: 9C7QQ4VQ+HJ
Entry Name: Three Sisters Meridian Pillars, Waterside Street, Largs
Listing Name: Waterside Street "Three Sisters" Meridian Pillars
Listing Date: 14 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382221
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37197
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Largs, Waterside Street, Three Sisters Meridian Pillars
ID on this website: 200382221
Location: Largs
County: North Ayrshire
Town: Largs
Electoral Ward: North Coast and Cumbraes
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Erected 1808 for Sir Thomas Brisbane, Astronomer. 3
rubble-built square-plan meridian pillars, with droved,
squared rubble quoins, orientated roughly east-west and
situated on a motte. Central pillar capped by
pediment-shaped stone, flanking pillars each capped with
3 upright slabs in gun-sight arrangement.
Pillars face towards Brisbane Glen where Sir Thomas
Brisbane built an observatory, with which the pillars
relate after his return home in 1808. The sale of
Halkshill in 1815 includes the condition that no
building is to obscure these pillars.
Brass plate in latter pillar at foot of motte dated 1808.
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