Mearns Castle - Photo ©
W.Robinson, 28 October 2008
Mearns Castle - Photo ©
W.Robinson, 28 October 2008
Mearns Castle is a fifteenth-century castle in Newton Mearns to the south of Glasgow, Scotland.[1] The castle gives its name to Mearns Castle High School.
The castle was built by Herbert, Lord Maxwell, under a royal warrant issued in 1449, and remained with the family until the fifth Lord was required by James VI to deliver it up to the crown.[1] It was sold to Sir George Maxwell of Nether Mearns in the middle of the seventeenth century, and later passed to the Shaw-Stewart family.[1] In 1971 the remaining stories of the tower were converted to a link between two Church of Scotland buildings.[1]
The castle was originally a four-storey rectangular tower, and parts of the original corbelling remain. There is a vaulted basement room, approached from the main entrance. The first-floor hall, which is also vaulted, is approached by a straight mural stair; is has stone window seats, and once had a minstrels’ gallery. The original arched entrance is now walled up.[1]
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