Author: Alberto Pearson

Orchardton Tower House Dumfries and Galloway The only free standing circular tower house in Scotland. It is 4 storeys high with a parapet and a walk. Substantial remains of barmkin building survive. The tower was built in 1436 by John Cairns

St Marys Old Parish Church, Dairsie Archbishop John Spottiswood owned the castle here for a time. There has been a parish church adjacent to the castle since at least the 1160’s, but in 1621 the archbishop decided to rebuild it as a model of what a church fitted for reformed episcoplian worship should be. The […]

Collessie Church Rebuilt in 1839 by RR Dickson, Collessie Church sits on top of and ancient parish church. This is a T-shaped turreted building which sits at the centre of the small settlement of Collessie which is now a conservation area containing a number of well preserved 17th, 18th and 19th century weavers cottages

Canonbie Parish Church Canonbie Parish Church 1821-2 by William Atkinson – this is a rather heavy castellated Gothic style building with an interesting churchyard. Canonbie is in south east Dumfries and Galloway

St Devenic’s Church , Creich The small village of Creich lies in the hills of north Fife, to the northeast of Brunton. This is the ruined 14th century St Devenic’s Church of Creich with its 16th-century aisle. It is surrounded by the graveyard and is in the immediate vicinity of the castle. In the interior […]

Abernethy Round Tower NO 190165 58 HS This was the site of a Culdee Celtic Christian establishment, which was re-founded as a collegiate establishment in the 14th century. The slender round tower which is of Irish style was probably built by the Culdees in the 9th or 10th century and is one of only two […]

Images of St Nicholas, Pyrford, Surrey The church of St Nicholas was built around 1140 and is one of the few complete buildings of the Norman period left in Surrey. Some additions have been made – the bell tower and porch are Tudor and the vestry is Victorian The three-foot thick walls are supported by […]

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