St. Michael's Parish Church, Linlithgow

            Circa 1425-1532, John Frenssh; restored 1812 by James Gillespie Graham and 1894-6 by Honeyman and Keppie; aluminium spire added to tower in 1964 by Geoffrey Clarke. Spectacularly sited beside Linlithgow Palace, between the loch and town. A large Gothic, cruciform church with an E tower and canted chancel apse. 8-bay side elevations including transept and porch to S elevation and transept and vestry to N elevation. Squared and coursed cream sandstone rubble with base and string courses. Buttresses to N, S and E elevations, corner diagonal buttresses with canopied image niches (figure of St Michael at SW, all other figures destroyed by the Lords of the Congregation in 1559). Cusped tracery to nave and chancel aisles, flamboyant to S aisle, panel to apse, round-headed clerestory windows with cusped Y-tracery.

One of the finest parish church’s in Scotland.  John Frenssh, and his son Thomas, undertook the rebuilding after a fire in 1424. St. Michael is the town's patron saint; the town's motto is "St. Michael is kinde to strangers".  Mary Queen of Scots was baptised here. In 1606 and 1608, it acted as host to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In 1638, one of the national covenants was signed within. In 1821, the crown steeple was removed because of threatened collapse.

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Linlithgow (show map)

Taken on: December 8, 2024

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