Strathclyde - Historic Churches

Kirkoswald's Old Church was built around 1220. Inside the ruined church is the font where Robert Bruce was baptised. In the churchyard are the graves of Robert Burns' maternal grandparents as well as real-life characters from his poems such as the real Tam O'Shanter, Souter Johnnie, and Kirkton Jean.
Main Road (A77), Kirkoswald, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: Robert the Bruce's baptismal font
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Just off Largs Main Street stand the remains of a medieval church dedicated to Columba. The Old Kirk is now a burial ground, but the ruins include a Renaissance burial aisle with a painted ceiling.
Main Street, Largs, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: 17th century Skelmorlie Aisle
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A very simple sandstone memorial to Lachlan MacQuarie (1761-1824), who is known as the 'Father of Australia' for his role as Governor General of New South Wales from 1810-1821. The mausoleum stands in the grounds of Gruline House, which MacQuarie owned, and near is birthplace on the Isle of Ulva.
Gruline House, Gruline, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: Commemorates the 'Father of Australia'
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The old graveyard of Mauchline church is the final resting place of four children of poet Robert Burns. Also interred here and numerous characters immortalised by Burns in his early poems, as well as his patron Gavin Hamilton. The graveyard is very close to Burns House, where the poet lived with his wife Jean Armour.
Loudon Street, Mauchline, Strathclyde, Scotland, KA5 5BU

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Heritage Highlight: Connections with poet Robert Burns
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A late 14th-century collegiate chapel founded by John Kennedy of Dunure on the site of an early 13th-century chapel. In 1371 Kennedy and his family furnished the funds for the Chapel of St Mary at Maybole, and in 1382 they founded a college of priests to pray for their souls.
Abbot Street, Maybole, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Remains of a late medieval chapel once owned by the abbey at Derry in Ireland. In the chapel are a number of late medieval grave slabs including one with an effigy of a man thought to represent a MacKay of the Rinns.
Nerabus, Port Charlotte, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: 14th-century grave slab of a MacKay of the Rinns
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Paisley Abbey was founded as a priory by Walter Fitzalan, the High Steward of Scotland, around 1161, on a site near Renfrew where a 6th-century Celtic church founded by St Mirin had stood. In 1169 it was moved to its current site in Paisley. Fitzalan's priory was to follow the Cluniac rule, and the first 13 monks came from the Cluniac monastery at Much Wenlock, in Shropshire.

Abbey Close, Paisley, Strathclyde, Scotland, PA1 1JG

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Heritage Highlight: 8th century Barochan Cross
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The old parish church of Rothesay has a long and complex history. The church stands on the site of the Cathedral of Sodor (Cathedral of the Isles). In 1692 the church was moved to its current location, leaving behind a 13th-century chapel which may have been the chancel or choir of the main building. The chapel is dedicated to St Mary and is often called Lady Kirk, but an old tradition also associates the chapel with St Brioc, or Brieuc. Around 1315 it was converted to become a mortuary chapel for the Stewards of Scotland.
High Street, Rothesay, Bute, Argyll and Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland

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In 1812 the medieval church of Largs was torn down when a new church was built nearby. The only part of the earlier church to survive is the north transept, also known as the Skelmorlie Aisle. The aisle was built in 1636 by Sir Robert Montgomery of Skelmorlie as a place to hold an elaborate stone tomb for himself and his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas.
Gateside Street, Largs, Strathclyde, Scotland

Attraction Type: Church - Monument
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Heritage Highlight: Superb Renaissance memorial and painted ceiling
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An intriguing site at the southern end of the Isle of Bute, St Blane's consists of a 12th-century Romanesque chapel built inside the remains of a 6th-century Celtic monastery supposedly founded by St Blane. Blane's monastery existed until at least the late 8th century, and the site was an important burial site until the 12th century when a small church was built within the monastery to serve as a parish church for the southern end of Bute.
Kingarth, Bute, Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Photos of St Blane's Church
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