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Paisley, Wardmeadow
Prison (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Paisley, Wardmeadow
Classification Prison (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 43062
Site Number NS46NE 10
NGR NS 483 655
NGR Description NS c. 483 655
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43062
- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Paisley (Renfrew)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS46NE 10 c. 483 655.
(Centred NS 4837 6551) Wardmeadow: An arable field between Nethercommon Cottage and Marchfield House, supposed to have been the place where a prison once existed before the Reformation.
Name Book 1857
Extensive enquiry failed to locate county records, and no further information on this site was obtained.
Visited by OS (WMJ) 13 March 1951
NS 483 655 A 5% evaluation by mechanically excavated strip trench along the E side of Inchinnan Road was undertaken in advance of development in an area where documentary references suggested the former presence of a medieval prison (NMRS NS46NE 10). The earliest identified remains related to an early to mid-19th-century villa and its surrounding garden walls at the N end of the site - Marchfield House. At the end of the 19th century the site was heavily redeveloped as part of the Phoenix/Fleming and Ferguson shipbuilding works, many remains of which were identified.
Sponsor: Vico Land and Estates Ltd.
T Addyman 2001
