Ballikinrain Castle

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Ballikinrain Castle

Ballikinrain Castle is a country house in the village of Killearn , 2 km southeast of Balfron and 5 kilometers west of Fintry in the Scottish county of Stirling .

Today the 19th century house is a boarding school run by CrossReach, a Church of Scotland social organization .

history

Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing (1818-1893), a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Dunbartonshire from 1868 to 1892, had Ballikinrain Castle built in 1868. Orr-Ewing was promoted to baronet on March 8, 1886.

He commissioned David Bryce (1803-1876) with the planning of a new house in the Scottish Baronial Style on his 1,800 acre property. The property is located on Ballinkinrain Burn , which rises south of it at Earl's Seat, flows about 4 km through Ballikinrain Muir and through the property over a series of cascades and flows into Endrick Water .

In June 1913 the country house burned down causing £ 100,000 damage. The fire is said to have been caused by suffragettes . The subsequent restoration was completed in 1916.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ballinkinrain Castle housed the Glasgow Poor Children's Fresh-Air Fortnight , where around 60 poor children were staying. For a short time the country house was also a hotel. In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II , St. Hilda's School for Girls , a boarding school in Liberton near Edinburgh , was temporarily housed because it was difficult to adequately renovate the buildings in Liberton that had been used by the army.

Historic Scotland has listed the cottage as a Category B Historic Building.

From 1950 to 1965 there was a tent and camping site with a shop and an outdoor pool on the site. The swimming pool was fed with spring water from the Campsie Spring .

Ballikinrain School

Ballinkinrain School is a non-denominational, independent school run by CrossReach , a social organization of the Church of Scotland. The school offers care and education for children from 6 to 16 years of age who are socially, emotionally or behaviorally problematic. In January 2013 it had 33 students, including 23 boarding school students. The young people had been sent there by 12 different offices.

In 2009 there were 35 male students in the Ballikinrain School who were between 8 and 14 years old. These included both boarding school students and day students.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ballikinrain School . Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education. May 20, 2009. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012.
  2. ^ FWS Craig: British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 . 2nd Edition. Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester (1977) 1989. ISBN 0-900178-26-4 . P. 582.
  3. ^ Image in the Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
  4. ↑ Ballikinrain Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  5. ^ Robin Carruthers Rennie, T. Crouther Gordon: The County of Stirling . Series: Third Statistical Account of Scotland . Collins, 1966.
  6. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ NS5687: Rennie's Campsite, Ballikinrain . Geographer. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  8. ^ Care inspectorate report . Scottish Government. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Ballikinrain Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 56 ° 3 ′ 23.8 "  N , 4 ° 18 ′ 29.9"  W.