Scotland's Churches Trust
@scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
Celebrating Scotland's rich culture and built heritage since 1978. We preserve, promote and protect Scotland's unique assemblage of ecclesiastical buildings.
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
A Hamilton Bardrainney congregation is celebrating victory in the struggle to save their church.
Read more here 👇
www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2559642...
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📷Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
Read more here 👇
www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2559642...
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📷Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A Hamilton Bardrainney congregation is celebrating victory in the struggle to save their church.
Read more here 👇
www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2559642...
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📷Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
Read more here 👇
www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2559642...
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📷Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
The Kintyre peninsular is home to our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Southend Parish. The church was built in 1774 and is the third building on the site. Designed by mason James Stirling, it is a simple harled kirk.
Read more on our website 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/south...
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Read more on our website 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/south...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Kintyre peninsular is home to our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Southend Parish. The church was built in 1774 and is the third building on the site. Designed by mason James Stirling, it is a simple harled kirk.
Read more on our website 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/south...
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Read more on our website 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/south...
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Church of the Holy Rood Cemetery
Below Stirling Castle
Stirling, Scotland
May 2025
#ScapeDay
#Landscape
#Photography
#Travel #Outdoor
#TravelPhotography
#OutdoorPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Below Stirling Castle
Stirling, Scotland
May 2025
#ScapeDay
#Landscape
#Photography
#Travel #Outdoor
#TravelPhotography
#OutdoorPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Church of the Holy Rood Cemetery
Below Stirling Castle
Stirling, Scotland
May 2025
#ScapeDay
#Landscape
#Photography
#Travel #Outdoor
#TravelPhotography
#OutdoorPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Below Stirling Castle
Stirling, Scotland
May 2025
#ScapeDay
#Landscape
#Photography
#Travel #Outdoor
#TravelPhotography
#OutdoorPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
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🪬🧿 Crichton Parish Church in autumn
#autumn #church #landscape #scotland #graveyard #crichton #trees #sky #heritage #architecture #alttext
#autumn #church #landscape #scotland #graveyard #crichton #trees #sky #heritage #architecture #alttext
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🪬🧿 Crichton Parish Church in autumn
#autumn #church #landscape #scotland #graveyard #crichton #trees #sky #heritage #architecture #alttext
#autumn #church #landscape #scotland #graveyard #crichton #trees #sky #heritage #architecture #alttext
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#LestWeForget #StainedGlassSunday Memorial window, by #DouglasStrachan in Morrison’s Academy, Crieff. Photos of just a few of the FPs who died.
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#LestWeForget #StainedGlassSunday Memorial window, by #DouglasStrachan in Morrison’s Academy, Crieff. Photos of just a few of the FPs who died.
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A great article from the BBC website about the St Giles Cathedral dig in 1981 and the recent work commissioned by John Lawson, the City's archaeologist. #blackdeath #plagueinedinburgh #stgiles #archaeology #dig
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton
Plaque on the teenager's teeth contains pathogens of the bacteria for the Bubonic plague.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A great article from the BBC website about the St Giles Cathedral dig in 1981 and the recent work commissioned by John Lawson, the City's archaeologist. #blackdeath #plagueinedinburgh #stgiles #archaeology #dig
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mary, Countess of Home, was buried there in 1644, 'my will is to have the tomb made with our pictures to the waist in white marble ... I mean my lord, my dear son Home and myself, And I would be laid betwixt them ... Mr Stone the stonecutter that dwells in Longacre shewed me a toombe he had made'
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Mary, Countess of Home, was buried there in 1644, 'my will is to have the tomb made with our pictures to the waist in white marble ... I mean my lord, my dear son Home and myself, And I would be laid betwixt them ... Mr Stone the stonecutter that dwells in Longacre shewed me a toombe he had made'
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Fascinating place and burial site of the remarkable Helen Hall, and her husband James (friend of James Hutton and father of geochemistry!).
"Stone by Stone: The Shifting Legacy of Dunglass Collegiate Church"
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
Stone by Stone: The Shifting Legacy of Dunglass Collegiate Church - Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Discover the evolving story of Dunglass Collegiate Church and Scotland’s changing religious landscape.
blog.historicenvironment.scot
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fascinating place and burial site of the remarkable Helen Hall, and her husband James (friend of James Hutton and father of geochemistry!).
"Stone by Stone: The Shifting Legacy of Dunglass Collegiate Church"
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
Stone by Stone: The Shifting Legacy of Dunglass Collegiate Church - Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Discover the evolving story of Dunglass Collegiate Church and Scotland’s changing religious landscape.
blog.historicenvironment.scot
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Stone by Stone: The Shifting Legacy of Dunglass Collegiate Church"
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
Historic Environment Scotland have published a blog on the history of Dunglass Collegiate Church, pondering what lessons its story can offer us about our changing religious landscape 👇
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/ston...
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Scottish Church History 54.2 is now out (@scotchurchhist.bsky.social)!
Always a joy to work with Scott, our contributors, and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social on another great issue of the journal.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/2
Always a joy to work with Scott, our contributors, and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social on another great issue of the journal.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - sch: Vol 54, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Scottish Church History 54.2 is now out (@scotchurchhist.bsky.social)!
Always a joy to work with Scott, our contributors, and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social on another great issue of the journal.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/2
Always a joy to work with Scott, our contributors, and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social on another great issue of the journal.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/2
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Sister Jessie McRobbie died #OTD in 1918 and was buried in Crieff cemetery on Armistice Day, with a service being conducted by Rev Andrew Campbell. His thoughts are below - from his book, ’Crieff in the Great War’. We’ve been unable to find a photo of Jessie.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Sister Jessie McRobbie died #OTD in 1918 and was buried in Crieff cemetery on Armistice Day, with a service being conducted by Rev Andrew Campbell. His thoughts are below - from his book, ’Crieff in the Great War’. We’ve been unable to find a photo of Jessie.
Arbuthnott Church, the remarkable wee kirk that inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song" has been put up for sale by the Church of Scotland for offers over £45,000
Unfortunately the community attempts to create a sustainable plan for its future were unsuccessful 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unfortunately the community attempts to create a sustainable plan for its future were unsuccessful 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunset Song: Church that inspired Grassic Gibbon novel up for sale
Arbuthnott Church inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon and is for sale for offers over £45,000.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Arbuthnott Church, the remarkable wee kirk that inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song" has been put up for sale by the Church of Scotland for offers over £45,000
Unfortunately the community attempts to create a sustainable plan for its future were unsuccessful 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unfortunately the community attempts to create a sustainable plan for its future were unsuccessful 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sad news that the community group hoping to purchase Arbuthnott Church - the 13th century building which helped inspire Lewis Grassic Gibbon to write “Sunset Song” - has been unsuccessful. The Church of Scotland has put it back on the market - at £45,000! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...
Villagers lose fight to buy church that inspired Sunset Song as building is put up for sale
The church dates back to the 13th century and is where Sunset Song author Lewis Grassic Gibbon is buried.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Sad news that the community group hoping to purchase Arbuthnott Church - the 13th century building which helped inspire Lewis Grassic Gibbon to write “Sunset Song” - has been unsuccessful. The Church of Scotland has put it back on the market - at £45,000! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...
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Some of the gargoyles and carvings on Walter Douglas Campbell's eccentric vSt Conan's Kirk, in Lochawe. The rabbit looks particularly rabid with the weed choked mouth. Or mad March hares?
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Some of the gargoyles and carvings on Walter Douglas Campbell's eccentric vSt Conan's Kirk, in Lochawe. The rabbit looks particularly rabid with the weed choked mouth. Or mad March hares?
Our lovely church recorders from Aberdeenshire have sent us a few more snaps from their recent visit to Montrose Auld Kirk that we had to share.
So here's a brief 🧵 of images from the group's organiser Ali Cameron.
So here's a brief 🧵 of images from the group's organiser Ali Cameron.
Our fab Aberdeenshire church recording volunteers have been out and about this week documenting another beautiful church, this time Montrose Old & St Andrew's Church
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Our lovely church recorders from Aberdeenshire have sent us a few more snaps from their recent visit to Montrose Auld Kirk that we had to share.
So here's a brief 🧵 of images from the group's organiser Ali Cameron.
So here's a brief 🧵 of images from the group's organiser Ali Cameron.
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Inscribed slates uncovered at Kilwinning Abbey in Ayrshire may offer clues about those who lived and worked there over 500 years ago ✍️
It's thought that slates carved with gaming boards may have been made by medieval monks or possibly masons and other workers: www.digitscotland.com/top-six-arch...
It's thought that slates carved with gaming boards may have been made by medieval monks or possibly masons and other workers: www.digitscotland.com/top-six-arch...
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Inscribed slates uncovered at Kilwinning Abbey in Ayrshire may offer clues about those who lived and worked there over 500 years ago ✍️
It's thought that slates carved with gaming boards may have been made by medieval monks or possibly masons and other workers: www.digitscotland.com/top-six-arch...
It's thought that slates carved with gaming boards may have been made by medieval monks or possibly masons and other workers: www.digitscotland.com/top-six-arch...
Our fab Aberdeenshire church recording volunteers have been out and about this week documenting another beautiful church, this time Montrose Old & St Andrew's Church
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Our fab Aberdeenshire church recording volunteers have been out and about this week documenting another beautiful church, this time Montrose Old & St Andrew's Church
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
Pictured below examining items in the church are group leader Ali Cameron and one of their new volunteers Amanda.
(📷: Sheila Duthie)
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15 seconds of the West End of #Glasgow, #Scotland last night, showing the Oran Mor church (now a venue)
#photography
#photography
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
15 seconds of the West End of #Glasgow, #Scotland last night, showing the Oran Mor church (now a venue)
#photography
#photography
In Strathpeffer, St Anne's Episcopal, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek has an interesting interior and stained glass windows by J. Powell & Sons (1891), T.C. Curtis, Ward and Hughes (1899-1900) and Heaton Butler for #WindowsOnWednesDay.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
In Strathpeffer, St Anne's Episcopal, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek has an interesting interior and stained glass windows by J. Powell & Sons (1891), T.C. Curtis, Ward and Hughes (1899-1900) and Heaton Butler for #WindowsOnWednesDay.
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All are welcome to the Church Music Scotland service, with music to celebrate the 80th birthday of Sir John Rutter, in Dunblane Cathedral on Saturday 8 November at 3.15pm
landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4199...
landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4199...
Church Music Scotland - Dunblane Singing Day
This year Church Music Scotland will be singing music by Sir John Rutter who celebrates his 80th ...
landing.churchdesk.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
All are welcome to the Church Music Scotland service, with music to celebrate the 80th birthday of Sir John Rutter, in Dunblane Cathedral on Saturday 8 November at 3.15pm
landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4199...
landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4199...
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Verdigris-covered roofs on Glasgow's medieval cathedral.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcathedral #verdigris
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcathedral #verdigris
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Verdigris-covered roofs on Glasgow's medieval cathedral.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcathedral #verdigris
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcathedral #verdigris
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2025 Dalrymple Lectures: "Prof Stephen Driscoll @uofglasgow.bsky.social will outline the contribution of archaeology to our understanding of Glasgow for over a millennium. This will include his own excavations at Govan Old & Glasgow Cathedral."
20&21 Nov 2025, 6:30pm, hybrid. tinyurl.com/bdz6yc3j
20&21 Nov 2025, 6:30pm, hybrid. tinyurl.com/bdz6yc3j
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
2025 Dalrymple Lectures: "Prof Stephen Driscoll @uofglasgow.bsky.social will outline the contribution of archaeology to our understanding of Glasgow for over a millennium. This will include his own excavations at Govan Old & Glasgow Cathedral."
20&21 Nov 2025, 6:30pm, hybrid. tinyurl.com/bdz6yc3j
20&21 Nov 2025, 6:30pm, hybrid. tinyurl.com/bdz6yc3j
The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981.
Story here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Story here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981.
Story here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Story here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Glasgow City Council has received an application to turn the old Methodist church in Partick into a wedding and arts venue. It is set to sell an area of land to the company behind the project.
Glasgow land to be sold to firm planning to turn Partick church into arts venue
www.glasgowlive.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Glasgow City Council has received an application to turn the old Methodist church in Partick into a wedding and arts venue. It is set to sell an area of land to the company behind the project.