St Bride's Collegiate Church, Bothwell
St. Bride's Collegiate Church, Bothwell, was founded by
Archibald "the Grim," Earl of
Douglas b , in 1398, for a provost and eight prebendaries. He
endowed and added a choir to the existing parish church.
The
present church is a fine Gothic building. erected in 1833 with a massive
square tower to the height of 120 feet. East of this tower is the choir
of the old collegiate church, of the Middle Pointed or Decorated period;
it is a simple oblong chamber with a sacristy on the north side. The
church, externally divided by buttresses. has four bays with a series of
pointed windows in the south wall, and three windows in the north wall,
The arch of the entrance doorway in the south wall is elliptic in form,
The roof of the church is covered with overlapping stone slabs. which
rest on a pointed barrel vault-one of the earliest examples met with. In
the sacristy there are a piscina and a locker, and in the south wall of
the choir the remains of a triple beautifully carved sedilia and a
eisclna. The sacristv is roofed with overlapping stone flags supported
on a vault.
Monuments to the two Archibald Douglases. Earls of
Forfar, are in the church. In this church David, the hapless Earl of
Rothesay, wedded Marjory, the founder's daughter, ill 1400. and one of
its provosts was Thomas Barry, who celebrated the victory of Otterburn in
Latin verse. Two memorials, inside and out, commemorate Gilbert and
Cecilia Douglas, who lived nearby at
Douglas Park.
"It has been recently (1901) restored and made worthy
of its great past. " Further restoration was completed in 2017.
Above each of the windows, on the outside, are two figures of local
personalities. Cleanly Meg was the proprietrix of the adjacent
Douglas Arms,
known for the cleanly condition of her public house.
See also:
• St Bride
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