View from SW
SC 754914
Description View from SW
Date 12/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 754914
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32457 CN
Scope and Content New Lanark Church of Scotland, New Lanark Road, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south-west This shows the Gothic-style New Lanark Church which was built in 1898. The five-bayed building has four arched windows with tracery (connecting rib-work) which are topped by hood-moulds (projecting mouldings). The gabled porch has an arched entrance and the bellcote on the top of the building is also gabled. The church is a late addition to the village which may have been because of the views of David Dale and Robert Owen. David Dale founded his own religious sect and Robert Owen was not particularly religious. Nevertheless they realised that religion was important to mill workers and services were held in the New Buildings and at the New Institution for the Formation of Character. The church has now been converted into a village hall. New Lanark was founded c.1785 by David Dale (1739-1806), a Glasgow merchant, and Richard Arkwright (1732-92), inventor of a water-frame for cotton spinning. Powered by water flowing from the Falls of Clyde the first cotton mill opened in 1786 and by 1799 the complex was the largest of its kind in Scotland. Robert Owen (1771-1858), who was married to David Dale's daughter, was one of a group who bought the mills in 1800. He transformed them into a model industrial community with good working conditions, houses, a non-profit store, a school and an institute for workers. Owen's partners bought the mills in 1828 and operated them until 1881 when another partnership took over. The Gourock Ropework Company ran the site until 1968 which is now mainly under the care of the New Lanark Conservation Trust (founded 1974-5). New Lanark was designated a World Heritage Site in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Original: E32457/CN
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