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Barnweil Monument , Wallace Monument , Near Craigie , Ayrshire , Scotland .
A category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill (503 ft), a prominent location in the Parish of Craigie, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Though easy to see , it's a very precarious single track road with high hedges for about 2 miles .
Built in 1857 it pre-dates it's more famous namesake by 12 years .
Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower (60 ft), or the Barnweil Monument is a gothic building (1857) dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill (503 ft), a prominent location in the Parish of Craigie, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Built in the mid 1850's as a memory to William Wallace, so close to my village, but first time in 25yrs, i have been there.
This is sometimes (also) called the Barnweil Monument and was completed around 1857.
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Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument is a category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace. Located on Barnweil Hill, a prominent location in the Parish of Craigie, South Ayrshire, Scotland.Wikipedia
This very striking, picturesque and prominent Gothic hilltop monument was built to commemorate William Wallace at the time of an upsurge in the Scottish desire for self-determination, and predating the celebrated monument near Stirling by several years. It is known as the Barnweill Monument or Wallace Tower. The story that the name derives from an occasion when Wallace, standing on this elevated site, remarked that the Barns of Ayr (containing English soldiers) 'burn weil' is a myth, the real reason being that it is situated close to the remains of the medieval parish church of Barnweill, a parish that was suppressed in the 17th century. It sits just outside Craigie atop Barnweil Hill (500ft).Sadly no access to the top of the tower any longer from where the whole of the Ayrshire landscape,coast and the Firth of Clyde can be viewed.
Barnweil Monument South Ayrshire.
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Sun rising near Barnweil Tower. Pass this view most mornings, will get my timing right one day and catch the sun behind the monument.
A review of a shot from over 8 years ago. Seeing what has changed in my use of photomatix since then
The Wallace Monument or tower, Ayr is a picturesque Gothic structure and is in a prominent situation, built to commemorate William Wallace at the time of an upsurge in the Scottish desire for self-determination, predating the 1869 Wallace Monument at Stirling. The story is that the name derives from an occasion when Wallace, standing on this elevated site, remarked that the Barns of Ayr (containing English soldiers) `burn weil' is an invention, the reason for the name actually being that it is situated close to the remains of the medieval parish church of Barnweil, a parish that suppressed in the 17th century
The Ayr Advertiser of 12 October 1854 carried an advertisement calling for designs for the monument to be submitted to W F Love of Beith by 1 January 1855. The Ayr Advertiser of 30 October 1856 stated that the monument was designed by William Dobie of Beith, and was built by Mr Snodgrass. The Dobies were a well-to-do professional family with antiquarian interests. No evidence has been found of any call for public subscription. Robert Snodgrass senior, son of William Snodgrass, mason of Beith, practised as an architect-builder in Beith. The land was donated by Brigadier-General James George Smith-Neil of Barnweil House in 1855
The Barnweil Monument barely visible on the skyline behind the central tree.
Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument, category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill (503 feet, 153 m), South Ayrshire, Scotland; built 1857, width 12 feet (3.7m) height 60feet (18m), presently closed to the Public. It is actually more or less a large Folly.
Photo by Phineas Redux.
Monument to William Wallace in Ayrshire, seems to be some confusion over whether it has one L or two, but this is how it's spelt on the plaque at the tower itself.
View at original size and pan through the images.
Barnweil monument and Mauchline Kirk. Wide angle pinhole shots with a remote controlled 120 camera.
By renowned architect John Loughborough Pearson, 1888; completed by Frank Pearson, 1898-1900. 2-bay Early English Gothic church with 3-stage square-plan tower (completed by Roger Pinckney, 1964). Coursed, squared sandstone. Buttresses divide bays. Cill course; lancet-arched openings. Lower 2-stages of tower to left original, 3rd stage 1964; 3 arched louvred openings at 3rd stage; castellated parapet; pyramidal roof with cross finial. 3-bay. Tracery window to St John's Chapel to outer left; 2 stages of 3 openings to sanctuary; moulded roundels flank taller central window at upper stage; arrowslit opening to gablehead; cross finial to gablehead. 2 single openings to lower height section to right; tall stack to blank gablehead of N aisle aligned above.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such (Scottish Episcopal). The church opened for worship in 1900, and was consecrated in 1908, replacing the previous Fullarton Street Church of 1839. The architect of Holy Trinity, John Loughborough Pearson, also designed Truro and Brisbane Cathedrals, with this church being of special interest as the only example of his work in Scotland.
The bell on display, approximately 15 inches in diameter, is inscribed, "Michael o Bvrgerhvys o Me o Fecit o 16Z5." The bell was cast at Middelburg in Holland in 1625 to the order of Rev. John Fergusson, who was minister of the parish of Barnweil, then an Episcopal Church. It was presented to the present church by Major General Neill in 1857, and hung in a wooden belfry (now removed). The church's proposed 92ft tower and spire, replaced by a truncated tower in precast concrete by Roger Pinckney in 1964.
In 1855 the Monument at Barnweil was built. It is located north east of Ayr, between Tarbolton and Symington, SCOTLAND.
It is claimed that it gets its name from an incident involving William Wallace where he set fire to the local farms' barns, trapping English soldiers. Watching the flames rise he is reported to have said "The barns of Ayr burn weel (well)".
In fact the name was in use long before Wallace's time.
HDR.
The Wallace Monument, Barnweil Hill, Ayrshire.
Looks like a Hammer Horror setting, just needs Christopher Lee chasing Marie Deveraux.
There is a farm immediately to the left of the monument. I like the original metal boot-scrapers on the doorstep, for scraping mud off visitors’ shoes before entering.
Taken from the Railway Station car park. On the left, the Laigh Kirk tower. On the right, the St Marnock Church tower. Now this next will take some imagination and sharp eyes; on the horizon almost equidistant between the two towers, in a clump of trees, can just be made out the solid silhouette of the Barnweil Monument tower. Yes it can, believe me! Perhaps zooming in on the Original image may help disbelievers :)
Formerly open to the public, but at present closed to visitors.
Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument, category A listed building dedicated to William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill, 153 m - 503 ft, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It stands 60 feet in height.
Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument, category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill (503 feet, 153 m), South Ayrshire, Scotland; built 1857, width 12 feet (3.7m) height 60feet (18m), presently closed to the Public. It is actually more or less a large Folly.
Photo by Phineas Redux.
Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument, category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill (503 feet, 153 m), South Ayrshire, Scotland; built 1857, width 12 feet (3.7m) height 60feet (18m), presently closed to the Public. It is actually more or less a large Folly.
Photo by Phineas Redux.