As part of the Govan Book Festival, we're open to visitors until 5pm this Saturday!
📚 The GBF event starts at 4:30pm and lasts until 5:30pm, after which attendees to Dr Tom Horne's chat about his book, Treasures of the Vikings, will be able to buy signed copies or browse our v cool Viking Age shop.
Local folklore suggests that St Modan may have been buried in the old graveyard opposite our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Modan's, Rosneath.
This story undoubtedly grew in strength following the discovery, in 1880, of an elaborately carved early-medieval cross slab, buried there.
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Visitor just now in the front garden.
The Glasgow Times reports on the Church of Scotland selling Duntocher Trinity Church "despite congregation members sharing their upset over its closure." 👇
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2618036...
If you have an interest in Scottish churches and church heritage, you might like to take a few moments to respond to the latest survey from @thebefs.bsky.social which looks to gauge opinions on the current "Ecclesiastical Exemption" planning guidelines
View it here 👇
www.surveymonkey.com/r/PF38HBM
St Mary's Church in Hawick has been given a £115,000 donation by an anonymous benefactor, days before being put up for sale.
More on our site 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-ma...
A Friends of St Mary’s group was set up last year.
Full story 👇
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2616985...
The people in this house, who aren’t interested in football, didn’t appreciate that this is a collector’s item. Too many times through the dishwasher in 48 years!
#ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Modan's, Rosneath has a fine carved oak pulpit, dated 1624, and a superbly carved and brightly coloured communion table. Behind this a painted wooden reredos, designed in 1931 by Morris Meredith Williams shows the Last Supper. Note too the ceiling.
#Woodensday
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Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2026
Scottish historical crime fiction
Fiction with a social conscience
Will she do it or won't she?
robmcinroy.co.uk/barvick-falls
#WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #Scotland #Perthshire #Crieff #WW2
The impressive edifice of Saint Columba's Parish Church in Woodside in Glasgow. Designed by Gillespie, Kidd and Cola in the Italian Romanesque style, it was completed in 1941.
#glasgow #church #architecture #architecturephotography
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A historic B-listed church in Clydebank is up for sale despite congregations members sharing their upset over it's closure