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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 Barony of Mearns (Roland De Mernis), which passed with its lands to the Maxwells through marriage. [4] A new castle was later rebuilt on the same site in the 1400's. Later in the mid 1700's and then 1840's another mansion house was constructed and extended on the site, but it eventually fell into disrepair by the 1940's, 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 is recorded as having featured in Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland, However this book does not contain the engraving, and it appears more likely to be sourced from a late 1700's Scottish Periodical Edinburgh Magazine. An original wash sketch of the scene was sold a few decades ago privately by public auction. Sandby also produced another simpler sketch of the same view which the engraving is based upon. This is held by the National Library of Wales. On the same visit Sandby produced a sketch of the Calderwood Linn which features on the back of a more well-known view by him of Bothwell Castle. [7] Another engraving signed after a drawing signed 'N. Britain' features is fascimile in Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland by McGibbon & Ross, however they misinterpreted the locational signing as W. Binton. [8] The original drawing is kept in the collection of drawings held at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Site Record for Calderwood Castle". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
  2. ^ a b c "History cavalcade: Calderwood Castle". Daily Record. 18 June 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Calderglen Country Park Walks and Trails". South Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
  4. ^ Various ancient references from statutes and Glasgow and Paisley Legal documents and charters, records kept in archives at NAS, Glasgow City Archives &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

See also

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