Mearns Castle
Mearns Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, to the south of Glasgow, Scotland.[1] It is a Category A listed building.[2] The castle has been restored and is now part of the Maxwell Mearns Castle Church. It also gives its name to nearby Mearns Castle High School.
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[edit] History
The castle was built by Herbert, Lord Maxwell, under a royal warrant issued in 1449, and remained with the family until the fifth Lord was required by James VI to deliver it up to the crown.[1] It was sold to Sir George Maxwell of Nether Mearns in the middle of the seventeenth century, and later passed to the Shaw-Stewart family.[1] In 1971 the remaining stories of the tower were converted to a link between two Church of Scotland buildings.[1]
[edit] Description
The castle was originally a four-storey rectangular tower, and parts of the original corbelling remain. There is a vaulted basement room, approached from the main entrance. The first-floor hall, which is also vaulted, is approached by a straight mural stair; is has stone window seats, and once had a minstrels’ gallery. The original arched entrance is now walled up.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Lindsay, p.352
- ^ "Newton Mearns, Waterfoot Road, Mearns Castle, Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/portal.hsstart?P_HBNUM=18536. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- Lindsay, Maurice (1994) The Castles of Scotland. Constable. ISBN 0 09 473430 5
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Coordinates: 55°46.1101′N 4°18.5415′W / 55.7685017°N 4.309025°W
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