Crossbasket

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Crossbasket

Crossbasket , also known as Crossbasket Castle , is a former manor house and now a hotel in Scotland . It lies between the towns of Blantyre and East Kilbride in the South Lanarkshire Council Area . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish List of Monuments in the highest category A.

history

In 1382, the Scottish King Robert II awarded the lands of Kilbride to John Lindsay . The Lindsays of Dunrod , who reside in a nearby castle, had a tower built as a widow's house on the site in the early 16th century , which is the nucleus of Crossbasket. After Alexander of Dunrod used up the family fortune in the early 17th century, Crossbasket was mortgaged.

A John Kincaid bought the property in 1661 and sold Crossbasket to the Peter family in the 1700s . In the period that followed, the property changed hands several times. The Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh , the inventor of the Mackintosh, lived there . He had a water mill built on the river to dye fabrics. After the end of World War II , James Little Crossbasket donated to the aid organization Dr Barnardo's Homes . James Little College was established there in the 1960s . In 1981 the Latter Rain Movement acquired the manor house and maintained a Christian meeting place there. After an investor bought Crossbasket in 2005, it stood empty until 2011. Then the conversion to a hotel began.

description

Crossbasket is isolated off the A725 between the towns of East Kilbride and Blantyre, which are only two kilometers apart. It consists of an elongated tower from the early 16th century with a contemporary design. This was later expanded into a mansion in the historicizing Victorian style . The masonry of the three-storey building consists of quarry stone roughly cut into blocks . A partly cantilevered crenellated reinforcement runs around it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b History of Crossbasket
  3. ↑ Entry on Crossbasket  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 47 '0.5 "  N , 4 ° 7' 39.4"  W.