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San Zaccaria, Venice

RIBA5518
Codussi, Mauro (1440-1504)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Roman Agora, Athens

RIBA9250
NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Roman Agora, Athens: the marble frieze

RIBA9253
NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

St Anne's Church, Over Haddon, Derbyshire: sundial

RIBA9646
David Kindersley & Associates

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Athens, with the Acropolis in the background

RIBA10299
SOURCE: John Stuart and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens, vol. I (London, 1762), ch. III, pl. I NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Athens

RIBA10300
SOURCE: John Stuart and Nicholas Revett. The antiquities of Athens, vol. I (London, 1762), ch. III, pl. III NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Athens: capital and entablature of the portico

RIBA10301
SOURCE: John Stuart and Nicholas Revett. The antiquities of Athens, vol. I (London, 1762), ch. III, pl. VII NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes), Roman Agora, Athens

RIBA11163
NOTES: This octagonal tower dates from the 1st century BC and was originally the 'Horolgion of Andronykos Kyrrhestes'. It served as a water clock until the 6th century. The sides of the tower indicate the eight points of the Athenian compass, and the eight winds associated with these points are represented allegorically on the marble frieze that runs around the tower.

Record sketches of various houses, made for Herbert Baker by Sir Edwin Lutyens: sketch perspective of Jekylls, Great Warley, Essex, and a sketch of the sundial and pergola in Pond Court, Woodside, Buckinghamshire

RIBA12884
Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944)
NOTES: These sketches, made for Herbert Baker by Edwin Lutyens, are part of the Herbert Baker Archive.
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