Bothwell Parish Church

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Bothwell Parish Church

The Bothwell Parish Church , and St Bride's Collegiate Church is a church building of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Scottish town of Bothwell in the Council Area South Lanarkshire . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. The Joanna Baillie Monument located on the church grounds is also independently classified as a Category A individual monument.

history

A Marienkirche was mentioned on the site as early as the 6th century. The location was later associated with Brigida von Kildare (Bríde). The foundations of a previous Romanesque building have been preserved and integrated into the current structure. Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas had today's church built as a collegiate monastery . Antipope Benedict XIII. approved the construction. The work was completed on October 10, 1398. Eight canons prayed for Douglas' soul in the pen. He passed away two years later.

In 1719 the nave was redesigned and a completely new nave was added in 1833 by David Hamilton . Robert Rowand Anderson modernized the late medieval choir in 1898 . Further revisions were made in 1933.

description

Bothwell Parish Church is on Main Street in downtown Bothwell. It is designed in the late Gothic Perpendicular Style or neo-Gothic . Its masonry consists of blocks from red sandstone . Buttresses ending in pinnacles flank the two-winged entrance portal. Three flat tracery extend along the same gable end . All windows are pointed arches and suspected to be pointed arches . The three-story bell tower was in front of the medieval church. With the addition of the new nave, it now rises in the middle of the building without being a crossing tower . It is designed with buttresses and final corner pinnacles. The medieval choir adjoins the east side. In contrast to the slate roofing on the nave, it is covered with stone slabs.

Joanna Baillie Monument

The Joanna Baillie Monument commemorates the Scottish poet Joanna Baillie , who was born in Bothwell in 1762. It is located southeast of the church near the entrance portal. The monument, erected in 1899, has a square floor plan. In Italianate architecture designed owns the monument aedicules , framed mosaic panels and freestanding Corinthian columns at the edges. It tapers to a column with a kaffirme and a finial at the end . Gussets are ornamented with flowers, as is a surrounding frieze . Portraits of baillies framed by cherubim and fruit trees are shown on each side .

In 2010 the monument was placed on the Register of Endangered Listed Buildings in Scotland. In 2014, its condition was classified as good, but at high risk.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Information from the parish
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Bothwell Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk

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Coordinates: 55 ° 48 '11.9 "  N , 4 ° 4' 4.8"  W.