Old St. Bride's Kirk
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Old St. Bride's Kirk
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 24 Mar 2015
Originally the parish church of Douglasdale and the personal chapel of the Douglases of nearby Douglas Castle, the 14th-century kirk became a mausoleum of after it was rebuilt in the late 1300s by Archibald the Grim, son of Sir James Douglas, to house his father's remains, Over time it became the family mausoleum of the branch of the family known as the Black Douglases. The choir, tower and roofless south aisle still stand but the nave of the original church no longer exists.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.558293
Longitude
-3.847133