IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ballantrae Crescent, GLASGOW, G77 5TX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ballantrae Crescent, G77 5TX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (20 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Mearns Castle Trig Point
The trig point is situated beside Mearns Castle High School and from here there is a good view over Newton Mearns towards the Campsie Fells in the distance.
Image: © G Laird
Taken: 1 Jan 2013
0.07 miles
2
The rear of Mearns Castle High School
Seen from beside Mearns Castle.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.15 miles
3
Mearns Castle
A Category A listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB18536 15th century tower house. It was converted into a church in the late 1960s before a new modern church (on the right) was built attached to the tower in 1971.
See Mearns History Group https://mearnshistory.org.uk/index.php/history/castles/mearns-castle for more information.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.16 miles
4
Ancient and modern
The ancient (15th century) Category A listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB18536 tower house (Mearns Castle), with the 1971 Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church behind and similarly modern accommodation on the right.
See Mearns History Group https://mearnshistory.org.uk/index.php/history/castles/mearns-castle for more information.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.16 miles
5
Metal door to the castle
A steel door with grills top and bottom into the Category A listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB18536 Mearns Castle. The castle is not open to the public. The small, faded plaque to the left of the door reads:
COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF RENFREWSHIRE
This historic building has been
restored with the aid of
the Renfrewshire Heritage Committee
BUILDINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL & HISTORIC INTEREST
The County Council has not existed since local government reorganisation in 1975. Sadly the castle looks to be in need of attention again, with much pointing required and it is home to numbers of jackdaws which appear to be gaining access through the arrow slits. In fact the castle has been on the Buildings at Risk Register since 2008 https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/search/town/newton%20mearns/order/1//event_id/908609/building_name/mearns-castle-broom-road-newton-mearns.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.17 miles
6
Mearns Castle
The 15th century Category A listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB18536 tower house (Mearns Castle), with the 1971 Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church on the right.
See Mearns History Group https://mearnshistory.org.uk/index.php/history/castles/mearns-castle for more information.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.17 miles
7
Mearns Castle High School
This image was taken to replicate the first image for this square Image taken and submitted in 2005.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.17 miles
8
Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church
A church built on a circular floor plan adjacent to and attached to Mearns Castle, by Walter Ramsay Architects, built in 1971.
'In 1970 the congregation of Maxwell Church Pollok Street, Glasgow were forced to find a new site for their church due to the construction of the Kingston Bridge. It was decided that a new church should be built adjacent to Mearns Castle.
The congregation held services in the Mearns Castle hall until the church, Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church of Scotland, was completed. The church is attached to the castle but the castle itself is no longer used by the church.' (Information from Mearns History Group https://mearnshistory.org.uk/index.php/history/castles/mearns-castle ).
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.17 miles
9
Date stone
A foundation stone for the Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church, dated 1971.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.17 miles
10
Mearns Castle High School
The school entrance seen from the pavement just outside the grounds.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 15 Feb 2023
0.18 miles