Routes

Planner

Features

Updates

App

Get the App

Castles

Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins

Castles

Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins

Highlight • Monument

Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins

Name: Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins
Rating: 2

Recommended by 4 hikers

Save

Location: Overtown, North Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom

Save

See hikes here

Take Me There

Routes here

Best Hikes to Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins

4.0

(1)

hikers

1. Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Gowkthrapple

5.79km

01:35

90m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Easy

5.0

(1)

hikers

2. Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Pather

7.78km

02:10

140m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Intermediate

4.8

(4)

hikers

3. Old Graveyard and Mausoleum – Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Airbles

22.3km

05:56

230m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Expert

Tips

Falk

May 2, 2021

Cambusnethan House, or Cambusnethan Priory, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival. It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60s part of Livingston, Scotland. Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman tower house near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor house during the 17th century. The manor house burned down in March 1816, and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

Recent photo
The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their coat of arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside. The arms represents a casket, heart and lock and derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert the Bruce's heart back from the holy land. The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century Neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

Nineteenth-century view.
The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch. Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys. Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

Use of the building ended in 1984, and the building has fallen prey to vandalism and fire. The building is listed as At Risk by the Scottish Civic Trust but is already in derelict condition.

Text taken from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambusnethan_House

In the know? Log-in to add a tip for other adventurers!

Details

Informations

Elevation 50 m

Weather

Today

Thursday 23 October

10°C

4°C

0 %

If you start your activity now...

Max wind speed: 5.0 km/h

Most visited during

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

See hikes here

Take Me There

Location: Overtown, North Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom

Other Popular Places to Check Out

Strathclyde Loch

Clyde Riverside Pathways

Fannyside Lochs

Boardwalk by the River

David Livingstone Birthplace

The Big Climb

Waterfront Cafe, Strathclyde Country Park

View of the Valley in Chatelherault Country Park

Chatelherault Country Park

Woodland Path and Bluebells

Singletrack to Horsley Brae

To Quarter

Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory) Ruins

1. Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Gowkthrapple

2. Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Pather

3. Old Graveyard and Mausoleum – Woodland Path and Bluebells loop from Airbles

Other Popular Places to Check Out

We value your privacy ⛰️

We value your privacy ⛰️