The remains of Crossraguel Abbey near Maybole in Ayrshire, whose story began in about 1215 and effectively ended soon after the Reformation in 1560. It is one of the best preserved and most interesting of Scotland's many abbey ruins. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Ayrshire

From the train on the way home this evening. #Photography #Linlithgow #Twilight

'And he was transfigured before them: And his face did shine as the sun, And his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, There appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.' The Transfiguration in glass by Gordon Webster, 1966 in Dunblane Cathedral, today's Gospel. #StainedGlassSunday

A Hamilton congregation is seeking the appropriate permissions to remove a stained glass window war memorial by the artist Douglas Hamilton, two brass war memorial plaques and the Forster & Andrews pipe organ from the historic Cadzow Parish Church, that sadly closed in November. (🧵1/4)

Next up in the AHSS Strathclyde Group Winter Lecture Series: Heritage with Purpose: Adaptive Reuse and Community-Centred Design, with Sarah Jane Storrie 🗓️ 19 March 2026 📍 St Andrews West Church & Renfield Centre, Glasgow ⏰️ 7:30 – 9:30pm 🎟️ £6 online/in-person | £2 students: buff.ly/va5EmB8

We LOVE seeing these tiny messengers of the warmer Spring days ahead now emerging in kirkyards across Scotland. 😍 These beautiful snowdrops, outside Glenorchy & Innishael Parish Church in Argyll, are rising through the windblown fragments of a long autumn and winter. Do please share any you see! 📷

#ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Andrews,Tain has a fascinating interior. Much of the woodwork inside is by Robert “Mouseman” Thomson of Yorkshire whose characteristic signature is a small carved mouse located somewhere on each piece of furniture. 🧵1/2

We LOVE seeing these tiny messengers of the warmer Spring days ahead now emerging in kirkyards across Scotland. 😍 These beautiful snowdrops, outside Glenorchy & Innishael Parish Church in Argyll, are rising through the windblown fragments of a long autumn and winter. Do please share any you see! 📷

Some welcome news this week as Inveravon Church transferred into the ownership of the Glenlivet & Inveravon Community Association. Well done to everyone involved in the project to transform this historic church into a heritage and community hub. Story here 👇 www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/buyout-...

Community effort underway at Loch Insh Old Kirk in Kincraig 👇 A local charity has launched a Foundations Fund to cover legal costs ahead of purchasing the church. They’re aiming to raise £10,000 for the next steps - if you’d like to support then take a look at their crowdfunder!

I took part in the church recording project at Whitekirk Church last Friday. When we were encouraged to take ten minutes to contemplate and draw a feature of the church I chose the font and the window behind it which both feature the descending dove motif.

Aberlady Parish Church, East Lothian #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #eastlothian #Aberlady

#Dundee #Scotland Kinloch Family Window St Paul's Cathedral Dundee Scotland, photographed 15th August 2025.

There's coffee and cake tomorrow at Dundee Westgait Church Shaftesbury Terrace from 10am to 12 noon It is provided by Crafty and Bean, a Community Interest Company that supports young people with additional support needs to gain workplace experience. A wonderful initiative! #dundeewestend

Some wonderfully colourful stained glass in the nave of Glasgow Cathedral. #glasgow #architecture #stainedglass #glasgowcathedral #architecturephotography

The Royal Arms of Scotland. A roof boss in the Blacader Aisle, Glasgow Cathedral. #Glasgow #photography

Inside Glasgow Cathedral on a bright January morning. After visiting the beautiful Glasgow Wellspring mosaic in the crypt, I was in awe of the quality of light and space in the nave and choir, as sunlight streamed through the windows. The medieval Gothic stonemasons knew what they were doing.

The Glasgow Cathedral Wellspring by Aproxima Collective with Scottish artist Joanna Kessel. Handblown coloured glass tiles inlaid with gold leaf, shimmer with light. A well existed on this site long before Glasgow became a city. It is believed St Kentigern/Mungo established his cell here in the 6thC

St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. #Scotland #photography

Doorway, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh #scotland #photography

Coming up next in the AHSS Forth & Borders Group Winter Lecture Series: Architecture and Urbanism in late Georgian Edinburgh with speaker John Lowrey 🗓️ Mon 9 Mar 2026 📍 Augustine United Church, Edinburgh and via Zoom 🎟️ £6 | £2 students 🔗 Book your tickets here: buff.ly/B2tZQZ6

St. Andrew's Free Church, later MacDonald's Furniture Store, Cathedral St. at N. Hanover St. #Glasgow 1895. (GCC Archives)

St Alphonsus Church on London Road in the East End of Glasgow. Built in 1905, it was designed in a Gothic style by Peter Paul Pugin of the ecclesiastical architects Pugin and Pugin. #glasgow #church #architecture #calton #architecturephotography

Underneath the M8 motorway at Anderston train station, part of the Glasgow city inner ring road built between 1966-1970. Nearby Anderston Pyramid, formerly Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church. Built 1965-68. A concrete mural at Charing Cross, demolition revealing views of the Mitchell Library. 2/n

Towers and tenements. We're up near the flagpole in Queen's Park, shooting across the city from south to west, with the unmistakable Glasgow University tower catching the setting sun. Closer to us is Albert Road United Presbyterian Church, designed by J B Wilson and built in 1886-1887. #glasgow

Alexander “Greek” Thomson’s stunning United Presbyterian church tries to hold its own in amongst the far uglier edifices of Glasgow city centre…

C.E. Kempe's 1898 upper east window in Govan Parish Church. Christ with the Seven Lamps of the Church surrounded by various Scottish and Other Saints. #Glasgow #Photography #StainedGlass

Thomas Lennox Watson's 1880s Wellington Church on University Avenue in the West End of Glasgow looking fabulous in yesterday afternoon's sunshine. #glasgow #church #architecture #architecturephotography #sunshine

Oran Mor, West end of #Glasgow, #Scotland in Black and white with Victorian lampposts Taken in September 2020 #photography

Our second PG Symposium is coming up on 30 March! Join us online to explore more about 'Theories, Frameworks and Concepts' in #ChurchHistory. If you would like to attend, please email Michael Fraser ([email protected]). ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium...

St Andrew's, Tain, #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, is a delightful Highland church, housing some stunning stained glass and a collection of "Mouseman" woodwork. The original "tin tabernacle", from 1878, was replaced by a late Victorian Gothic building designed by Ross & Macbeth of Inverness in 1887. 🧵1/2

Kilmartin Parish Church and Glen, Argyll, Scotland. Kilmartin is host to one of the most remarkable prehistoric and historic valleys in Europe, filled with cairns, standing stones, and stone circles, with the early medieval Dàl Riatan centre of Dunadd at its southern terminus.

Sunday Symmetry: The Elizabeth Crichton Memorial Church, Dumfries • 720nm IR #blackandwhite #infrared #photography #symmetry #church #tree #scotland #blackandwhitephotography #infraredphotography

It's #SteepleSaturday, so let's make a final trip this week to Robin's Chapel, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek Designed by John F. Matthew, the foundation stone of this memorial chapel commemorating Lt Robin Tudsbery was laid in 1950. Read more here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/the-r...

For the latest of our "Love Your Local Church" blogs, retired tour guide and one of our former trustees, Annette Brydone paid a visit to a mid-Victorian Gothic gem of a church in Dalkeith, St David's Catholic Church. Read it on our website here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/love-yo...

How lovely to hear this historic instrument play again 🥰🎵 Dating from 1886, the Forster & Andrews two manual pipe organ was relocated from, the now closed, Partick Methodist Church and rebuilt in its new Irish home by Neiland & Creane Organ Builders Listen here: facebook.com/reel/1468593777938775/

I wrote a thing with Mark Hall on the wonderful late medieval chandelier in St John’s, Perth. Many simply do not know that Scotland has such ecclesiastical treasures and it’s more important than ever that we celebrate them at this time of mass church closures.

#Old #High #St #Stephen's #Church #Inverness #Scotland

St. Michael's Parish Church in #Linlithgow is one of the most beautiful #churches in #Scotland. Discover more at stephentravels.com/top5/churche... ⛪️✝️

For #AdoorableThursday this week, here's the beautiful doorway, with its welcoming inscription above, of the Robin Chapel, in Craigmillar in Edinburgh, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek

Our wonderful volunteer church recorders from Aberdeenshire visited the beautiful Banchory East Church this week to document its interior artefacts and furnishings. The congregation gave them a very warm welcome with tea and refreshments and plenty of stories about their historic church. (🧵1/3)

Inside the unique and beautiful St Moluag's Church in the village of Eoropie at the north end of the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles. It is believed to stand on the site of a chapel built in the 560s. #Scotland #StMoluagsChurch #Church #Eoropie #Lewis #WesternIsles

New Heritage Spotlight ✨ The late 15th-century chandelier in St John’s, Perth survived the Reformation - and turns out to be a fascinating composite reconstruction

For #WindowsOnWednesday, here are some of Sadie McLellan's marvellous creations in the Robin Chapel in Edinburgh, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week You can find out more about this artist, her windows and the chapel next month at a symposium there, organised by the Scottish Stained Glass Trust

A gravestone in Stirling from 1698 with a skull memento mori; the church tower behind it is riddled with bullet holes from Cromwell’s forces in 1651 during the Ango-Scottish war.

St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh from a couple of weeks ago during a chilly winter’s night, forgot to skeet this #Edinburgh #Scotland #winter

For #WindowsOnWednesday, here are some of Sadie McLellan's marvellous creations in the Robin Chapel in Edinburgh, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week You can find out more about this artist, her windows and the chapel next month at a symposium there, organised by the Scottish Stained Glass Trust

Over on to Canna yesterday - sunny and dry. Looking down to the Nunnery site. Island of Rum in the distance

3/3 'Then shall thy light break forth as the morning' More glass in St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen by Margaret Chilton, 1947.

2/3 'lift up your heads o ye gates and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors' by Margaret Chilton, 1948 also in St Machar's Cathedral. Chilton taught at Glasgow School of Art where one of her pupils was Marjorie Kemp. They worked together for the rest of their lives. Most of their work is in Scotland.