Architecture Notes

Event ID 827161

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS57NE 40.00 56365 79395

NS57NE 40.01 56373 79413 Edmonston Mausoleum

(NS 5636 7938) Church (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1958)

NMRS REFERENCE:

ARCHITECT: John Brash, 1803.

Parish Church and Graveyard, Strathblane.

The church. The parish church of Strathblane was built between 1802 and 1804, replacing a "mean building" of the preceding century. It is of no architectural interest, and the font, in its present form, shows no trace of antiquity. Set in the floor just S of the Communion table there is a worn slab bearing a sunk shield, flanked by the incised initials I M, perhaps for James Montrose; the initials I G, for James Graham, appear below the sinister side, but whatever originally balanced them on the dexter-perhaps a date and L for Lord-has now disappeared. The shield is charged, for Montrose: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, three escallops on a chief; 2nd and 3rd, three roses. The date 1604 read by Guthrie Smith cannot now be seen. The identity of the person commemorated is doubtful, as no holder of the title died in 1604 and all those from the 2nd Earl to the 1st Duke had the initial I; but the 3rd Marquess died in 1684, and it is quite likely that this date may have been misread as 1604. A brass plate, let into a pew, states that the tombstone commemorating Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, who died in 1689, and his ancestor Princess Mary, sister of James I, lies underneath the floor at the point so marked, but this could not be verified.

J G Smith 1886; Statistical Account (OSA) 1796; RCAHMS 1963, visited 10 November 1955

NS 563 793 There was a church in Strathblane in the 13th century, although the present church was built between 1802 and 1804, replacing one erected in the early 18th century.

OSA 1796; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; RCAHMS 1963; RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1977.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

The Church and Manse are ruinous.

Letter from John Graham of Dougalston to James, 1st Duke of Montrose.

1702 GD 220/5/31

Provision of a new bell for the Church.

Payment of £4.6.6 as the Duke's proportion of the cost.

Cash Book.

1733 GD 220/6/32/Page 663

Repair of the Kirk.

Note of stent laid on for the work.

ND [17th C] GD 220/6/599/13

Building of the Church.

Payment of £73.11.1 as the Duke's proportion of the cost.

Factor's Account Book.

1803 GD 220/6/1588