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Orchardton Castle

Orchardton Castle overlooks the Solway Coast. Built in the 1880s, this is a Grade B listed property formerly known as Orchardton House. Built around a Scottish Baronial-style mansion located in Auchencairn in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. It overlooks the Solway Firth, with views to Cumbria and Hestan Island. History The 1761 house had been started by Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Orchardton, who married a MacLellan of MacLellan's Castle and used the roof timbers and stone from nearby Orchardton Tower to build a new house in a better location near the sea. However the work bankrupted him and in 1786 the estate came under the ownership of James Douglas, a Liverpool merchant, and eventually passed down into the hands of William Douglas Robinson-Douglas in 1878. The new owner had the small mansion removed and built the current structure in the Scottish Baronial style between 1878 and 1883. In 1944 it became a military hospital for wounded officers and into a hotel after the war. The property was advertised for sale in 1951 when it was described as comprising 1,811 acres. and sold. It remained in use as an hotel until 1960. Between 1960 and 1981, it was a school and thereafter used for residential courses and conferences and housing for artists. Sold again in 2003 to Susanda DeVere, it was renovated over the next two years, including the installation of central heating and renewal of the electric wiring. The owners fell prey to a con artist while trying to sell the property in 2012. He is still at large in Scotland and is regularly featured in the newspapers. Its status was changed to castle in 2014, approved with Scottish heritage and government services. In late 2017, DeVere offered the property for as the grand prize in a lottery with £5 tickets. However, not enough tickets were sold and a cash prize was offered to the winners as an alternative. A complaint from someone who had not entered the competition meant that the advertising authority found against the competition. The owner appealed and also refused to accept the verdict. The Gambling Commission and the vast entrants of the competition supported her and no case was ever brought. Description A report in 2020 about the intended sale of the property, provided this information: "45-rooms, a cinema, library ... 20 bedrooms with more than 30 fireplaces spread out over four floors, and contains three full self-contained flats". There are also "three grand staircases, and one of them includes an original central lift". The grounds comprise five acres with "botanic gardens and woodland, a large pond and paddock, a stable block [and] a private beach". Sources Paterson, George B L (1983). Orchardton House, Auchencairn, by Castle Douglas. University of Glasgow, Mackintosh School of Architecture: University of Glasgow. References
Lochore Castle

Lochore Castle is a ruined 14th-century tower house, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and south of Lochore, east of Loch Ore, in Lochore Country Park. Little remains of the castle, which was originally on the island of Inchgall, the name meaning “Isle of Strangers”. It may be known alternatively as Inchgall Castle History Duncan of Lochore first built a motte on this site, during the reign of Malcolm IV of Scotland. The Valances acquired the castle (apparently by marriage) and extended it before constructing the keep during the 14th century, having probably lowered the motte. Thereafter in came into the hands of the Wardlaws of Torrie, and was then acquired by the Malcolms of Balbedie At the end of the 18th century, the loch was drained. Structure The keep had four storeys, and a courtyard with four corner towers, which enclosed ranges of buildings. Probably the castle was approached by a causeway from the east. The wider area was landscaped and loch refilled in the 1980s, to restore it after the devastation caused by mining in the 20th century. See also Castles in Great Britain and Ireland List of castles in Scotland References External links Media related to Lochore Castle at Wikimedia Commons
Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital

Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital is a community hospital located in Buckhaven, Fife, managed by NHS Fife. History The original hospital was designed by Alexander Tod and opened on 28 August 1909. It was erected in memory of Randolph Wemyss, a local landowner, with his widow Lady Eva Wemyss providing £10,000 for its construction. The hospital initially provided care for local residents and mine workers injured in the coal pits, supported through donations from local businesses, churches, individuals, and directly from the wages of local miners. In the 1960s, a major extension to the south of the hospital, designed by John Holt, was completed. During the 1990s, general surgery services were transferred to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. A review of services was conducted between 2002 and 2004. The most recent upgrade, costing £4.45 million, was completed and opened by Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Health Secretary, on 16 June 2008. The new services introduced included a men's health clinic, a sexual health clinic, a Maggie's Centre outreach facility, and integrated paediatric services. Services Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital serves as a clinical placement location for nursing students from the University of Dundee and also provides teaching facilities for the University of St Andrews. The hospital's Wellesley unit offers care for long-term conditions and end-of-life care through 16 continuing care inpatient beds. Additionally, the hospital hosts a range of community services, including dental services, clinical psychology, community rehabilitation, day care, learning disability services, out-of-hours services, and paediatric physiotherapy. References External links Official site Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital on Scotland’s Places Architecture details: Historic Environment Scotland. "Methil, Wellesley Road, Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital (Site no. NT39NE 58)". Retrieved 25 June 2025.
St John's Church, Inverkeithing

St John's Church is a former church building in Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. Originally built in 1752 as a Burgher chapel, it is a Category B listed building, noted by Historic Scotland as playing "a significant part in the development of Inverkeithing's socio-religious history". History In 1752 a split occurred within the congregation of Inverkeithing Parish Church over the choice of Andrew Richardson as minister by right of patronage; the dispute became known as the Inverkeithing Case. Following Richardson's eventual appointment as minister, 127 parishioners left, and St John's Church was built as a Burgher chapel. With growing attendance, in 1799 the building was widened, heightened, and had galleries added. By the 1830s, the congregation at St John's Church comprised roughly half the burgh's population. The church was renovated in 1882. The longest serving minister of St John's church was Reverend Ebenezer Brown, who served from 1780 to 1835. In 2006, St John's church was united with Inverkeithing Parish Church. The building was sold to a private buyer in 2022. Incarnations Founded as a Burger chapel, by 1779, a protracted dispute over the first minister of the Church led to a large part of the church becoming Cameronian. Later incarnations of the church are as follows: Associate Congregation c. 1786 - 1820 United Associate (Secession) Congregation 1820 - 1847 United Presbyterian Church 1847 - 1900 United Free Church in 1900 - 1929 Church of Scotland in 1929 - 2022. Listed Status In December 1979, St John's Church was awarded category B listed status by Historic Scotland. In their statement of special interest, they note the church: "... plays a significant part in the development of Inverkeithing's socio-religious history, with particular relevance to its status as a royal burgh and reflects the staunchness of its citizens." and also that "apart from some internal improvements, this church has not changed significantly since its major additions of the late 18th century." References
Ruchill Parish Church

Ruchill Parish Church is an early-20th-century parish church of the Church of Scotland located in the Ruchill area of Glasgow. History of the building Founded as a parish church of the United Free Church of Scotland, the church was built between 1903 and 1905. It was designed by Neil Campbell Duff in the Neo-Gothic style. It was built using Old Red Sandstone. A bell tower and nave gable were also built. The church contrasts greatly with the adjoining Ruchill Church Hall, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and built in 1899. History of the congregation Built as the Ruchill United Free Church, the church was renamed Ruchill Parish Church in 1929 upon union with the Church of Scotland. In July 2022, the congregation of Maryhill entered into a union with Ruchill Kelvinside, adapting the name Maryhill Ruchill Parish Church. References
Burntisland Burgh Chambers

Burntisland Burgh Chambers is a municipal structure in the High Street, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The building, which is the meeting place of the Burntisland Community Council, is a Category B listed building. History The first municipal building in Burntisland was a tolbooth which dated back to 1598. Several local Covenanters were incarcerated in the tolbooth during the Killing Time in the early 1680s and, later, some members of the Catholic Church were imprisoned there after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. By the early 1840s, despite being repaired several times, the tolbooth had become dilapidated and the burgh leaders decided to erect a new building on the same site. The new building was designed by John Henderson in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1846. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing the High Street. The left-hand bay, which was gabled, featured two arched windows on the ground floor, a tripartite window with tracery on the first floor and a quatrefoil above. The right-hand bay, which was slightly projected forward, took the form of a four-stage tower: there was an arched doorway with a hood mould in the first stage, a lancet window flanked by buttresses in the second stage, an octagonal tower head in the third stage and a belfry with louvres in the fourth stage, with a spire and weather vane above. Internally, the principal room was the burgh council chamber on the first floor. A clock, designed and manufactured by James Ritchie & Son of Broxburn was installed in the fourth stage of the tower to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The building was extended by three extra bays to the west in 1906: the extension was fenestrated by mullioned and transomed windows, with arched window heads on the ground floor and cusped window heads on the first floor. The town hall continued to serve as the meeting place of the burgh council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Kirkcaldy District Council was formed in 1975. Instead the building became the meeting place of the Burntisland Community Council. In 2013, the upper part of the tower was deemed unsafe and the fourth stage and the spire were dismantled and the stone was placed in storage. In November 2021, the community council confirmed that it was seeking funding for plans to redevelop the burgh chambers and to restore the upper part of the tower. Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by William Oliphant Hutchison of the founder of Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Sir Wilfrid Ayre. See also List of listed buildings in Burntisland, Fife References
Royal Mile police box

The Royal Mile Police Box, located on the Royal Mile in the City of Edinburgh, is the most valuable police box in the United Kingdom, and one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in Europe per square foot. Design The police box (along with others in Edinburgh) was designed by City Architect Ebenezer MacRae, and manufactured by Carron Ironworks in Falkirk. The new network of police boxes was formally commissioned by the Chief Constable and other dignitaries in 1933. All of the MacRae police boxes featured klaxons and blue flashing lights to alert constables to an incoming message, but the Royal Mile box uniquely featured a "sky lantern", a remote blue lamp mounted at high level on the street corner of North Bridge and Royal Mile, so as to attract attention across a wider area. Disposal Following a general sale of all police boxes (with just one exception) by Police Scotland, the Royal Mile box was purchased in 2012 by entrepreneur Kit Fraser for £102,000, and has since been converted into a ticket booth operated by City of Edinburgh Tours. See also Telephones portal Edinburgh portal References
Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh

The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh is a Category B listed building in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on Victoria Terrace in the city's Old Town. It is the central meeting house for members of the Quakers in Edinburgh. There is also another Quaker meeting held in the Open Door cafe in Morningside in the south of the city. The three-storey Italian Gothic church was built by architects Paterson and Shiells in 1865–66. It can be accessed from the Lawnmarket or from George IV Bridge, via a terrace that overlooks Victoria Street. As a religious building, it is managed by the South East Scotland Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is no longer used as a venue (Venue 40) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every August. There are four event spaces in the building: The Meeting Room (second floor, capacity: 60) The Hall (first floor, capacity: 80) The Library (first floor, capacity: 30) The Bow Room (ground floor, capacity: 15) References External links Edinburgh Quaker website Quaker Scotland website
St Mungo's Church, Glasgow

St Mungo's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built in 1841, with later work done on the church in 1877, and designed by George Goldie. It is situated on the corner of Parson Street and Glebe Street, east of St Mungo's Catholic Primary School and west of the Springburn Road. It was founded by the Passionists, is a Gothic Revival church and is a category B listed building. Aside from Glasgow Cathedral, it is one of only two churches in Townhead that survived the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s, the other being the Barony Church on nearby Castle Street, which is now an events space for the University of Strathclyde. History The church was first built in 1841. The architect was George Goldie. He built the church in the Italian Gothic architectural style. Nine years later, the church became the centre of a parish. In 1865, the Passionists arrived in Scotland. They came from Ireland and began to minister to the parish. From St Mungo's Church, the Passionists went out and ministered to Catholics in other parts of Scotland, such as St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh in 1867. In 1877, the church was altered, again to the designs of George Goldie. In 1899, the parish of St Stephen's Church in Sighthill became part of the same parish as St Mungo's and the Passionists minister to both churches. Parish Next to the church, to the east, is St Mungo's Retreat. In addition, to the north is the parish hall that acts as a day centre. The church has four Sunday Masses they are at 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am, 12 noon and 7:00pm on Sunday. There are also weekday Masses at 10:00am and 12:15pm. Exterior See also Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow Passionists References External links Official website Passionists UK site
Loreburn Hall

The Loreburn Hall is a military installation in Dumfries, Scotland. History The building was designed by Alan Burgess Crombie as the headquarters of the 3rd (Dumfries) Volunteer Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers and completed in 1890. This unit evolved to become the 5th Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to Gallipoli and then to the Western Front. The 4th and 5th battalions amalgamated to form the 4th/5th Battalion, with its headquarters at the Paton Street drill hall in Galashiels in 1961. Loreburn Hall then became surplus to requirements and ownership was transferred to Dumfries Council in 1968. The Council used the drill hall as a venue for concerts by performers such as Black Sabbath and Big Country and for sporting events such as wrestling. In 2014, the drill hall was given a new lease of life as a temporary gym and sports facility when the newly built DG One Leisure Centre was found to be so full of building defects it had to be closed for a major rebuilding program. References
Strathbungo Parish Church

Strathbungo Parish Church was a 19th-century Church of Scotland building located in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. The church body was demolished and converted into flats in 2006, but retained the original facade and bell tower of the former church. Original Church Strathbungo, like most of the south and west side of Glasgow was part of Govan Parish. In 1833, it was decided that a new mission be established in Strathbungo. Consequently, plans were made for a church to be built, which was eventually built between 1839 and 1840 on designs by Charles Wilson, with a total cost of £1300. The Reverend Alexander Sutherland became the first minister of the church in 1848. Second Church Strathbungo became an independent parish from the Govan Parish on 13 January 1879. Consequently, a new church was planned by 1883. Designs by J Ritchie were favoured and won the competition, but the designs by John McKissack of McKissack & Rowan were accepted and used instead. The foundation stone for the new church, built on the site of the old church, was laid in October 1887 Sir John Neil Cuthbertson. Most of the stone of the old church were reused in the new building, which opened on 7 October 1888. It was built in a Romanesque and Scots Gothic style, with a Crown steeple. A WWI memorial was installed in the church remembering the parishioners who died during the war, and which today is located in Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church. Closure By the 1970s, the congregation had dwindled and it was decided to close Strathbungo Parish Church and unite the congregation with Queen's Park West. The church closed in May 1979 and was eventually sold. However, it became derelict by time, at the point of destruction. The body of the church building, including the church halls, were demolished. In 2005 Southside Housing Association, who had purchased the site, built a number of residential flats in its stead, while retaining the church facade and steeple. the building was completed by May 2006. References
Wormiston House

Wormiston House ist ein Herrenhaus nahe der schottischen Ortschaft Crail in der Council Area Fife. 1984 wurde das Bauwerk als Einzeldenkmal in die schottischen Denkmallisten in der Kategorie B aufgenommen. Das zugehörige Taubenhaus ist hingegen als Denkmal der höchsten Denkmalkategorie A klassifiziert. Geschichte Zu Bauzeiten gehörten die Ländereien von Wormiston zum Besitz der Familie Spens. Im Jahre 1612 veräußerte die Familie Wormiston an die Familie Balfour. Die wiederum verkaufte Wormiston im Jahre 1621 an den Clan Lindsay. Später kauften die Spens Wormiston zurück. Im Laufe des späten 17. oder frühen 18. Jahrhunderts wurde ein flacherer Anbau hinzugefügt. Abermals 1802 und 1858 wurden Gebäudeteile hinzugefügt. In beiden Bauphasen wurde auch die vorhandene Struktur überarbeitet. Im Jahre 1972 war das Anwesen als leerstehend verzeichnet. Beschreibung Wormiston House steht isoliert rund 1,5 km nördlich von Crail. Von dem länglichen, dreistöckigen Gebäude gehen mehrere Flügel aus den verschiedenen Bauphasen ab, die teils nur zweistöckig sind. Seine Fassaden sind mit Harl verputzt, die Dächer mit Schiefer eingedeckt. Die Giebel sind als schlichte Staffelgiebel gestaltet. Der auskragende Turm im Innenwinkel wurde 1802 hinzugefügt. Vom Westflügel ragt ein dreistöckiger Turm mit Zinnenbewehrung auf. Taubenhaus Das Taubenhaus steht rund 50 m westlich des Herrenhauses. Es wurde vermutlich im frühen 17. Jahrhundert erbaut. Das Mauerwerk des länglichen Gebäudes ist mit Harl verputzt. In das abschließende Dach sind geschwungene Gauben mit Einflugsmöglichkeiten eingelassen. Der Innenraum gliedert sich in zwei Räume mit steinernen Nistkästen. Einzelnachweise Weblinks Eintrag zu Wormiston House auf trove.scot, der Datenbank von Historic Environment Scotland (englisch)
Govanhill Picture House

Govanhill Picture House based in Govanhill, Glasgow, was an Egyptian-themed cinema built in 1926 which was designed by architect Eric A. Sutherland and seated 1,200. It remained in use as a cinema until 1961 and then as a bingo hall till 1974. It was the warehouse and head office of John Greenlees Ltd shoe shops from the early 60s until late 1980s. Subsequently, the building was used as a warehouse. The building was re-roofed in 2012 due to its poor state of repair and general neglect. In 2018, plans were unveiled that the B-listed cinema was to be used again for its original purpose by Queer Classics Film Festival (QCFF). The event that took take place in August 2018 had the backing of Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow, the latter being where event organiser Lydia Honeybone is studying a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Practice. as of 2025 it contains a Halal Grocer and also a Fabric shop. currently there is no cinema in govanhill. “I have long been fascinated by Govanhill Picture House, it’s been a dream of mine for years now to hold an event there and partially the reason I moved to the Southside" In September 2019, the building was used again as a cinema with the screening of the 1920s film, The Open Road. The event was co-organised by Lydia Honeybone and Shireen Taylor as Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios (GAMIS). References