Calderwood Castle

Calderwood Castle was a castle in East Kilbride. The castle was situated near the banks of the Rotten Calder Water.[1][2][3] in what is now Calderglen Country Park.[3] Constructed in the fifteenth century by the Maxwell family, the original building collapsed in 1773.[1] An earlier building is known to have stood on the site which belonged to the originators of the Calderwood Family, which passed with its lands to the Maxwells through marriage. [4] A new castle was later rebuilt on the same site, but it eventually fell into disrepair, with the final vestiges of the castle being demolished with explosives in 1951.[2] Nothing now remains except ruins and rubble.[1] The now-ruined Craigneith Castle is nearby.[5][2][1]

A painting of the castle by Robert Purves Bell is in the collection of South Lanarkshire Council.[6] An Engraving by A. Robertson after a sketch by Paul Sandby from c. 1750's also exist depicting the castle viewed from the south. The engraving featured in Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland, albeit in an edition which is very scarce. The original wash sketch was sold several years ago privately by public auction. [7] Another engraving signed 'Binton' features is fascimile in Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland by McGibbon & Ross [8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Site Record for Calderwood Castle". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "History cavalcade: Calderwood Castle". Daily Record. 18 June 2008.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Calderglen Country Park Walks and Trails". South Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
  4. ↑ Various Calderwood Family records kept in archives at NAS, East Kilbride library &c.
  5. ↑ "Site Record for East Kilbride, Calder Glen, Craigneith Castle". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
  6. ↑ "Calderwood Castle by Robert Purves Bell". BBC. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
  7. ↑ Archival documents held by Christopher Ladds, Calderglen Historian.
  8. ↑ Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, McGibbon & Ross

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Coordinates: 55°46′19″N 4°08′02″W / 55.77187°N 4.13383°W