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Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland

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

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