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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566817
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566817
Mearns Castle, Waterfoot Road, mid-15th century
12m- (40ft-) high tower, with embattled parapet on corbelled wallhead. Much restored and combined with new circular building to become Maxwell Mearns Parish Church, c.1970, Walter Ramsay.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk