The Calder Drama
The Calder Drama would like to thank everyone who helped in any way to make the Christmas Panto such a resounding success. We would also like to thank the audiences on both nights for their participation and interaction which helped to create such a lovely warm Panto atmosphere.
It was obvious from your applause and laughter that this locally orientated story written by Franceska Ewart went down extremely well with everyone who saw it. We would like to wish the People of Lochwinnoch the compliments of the season and we hope to see you at our next Production which should be staged during the Lochwinnoch Festival in March.
An Evening with Bearsden Fiddlers
1st Inchinnan Scout Group presents an Evening with the Bearsden Fiddlers on Friday 3rd February at 7.30pm in Inchinnan Parish Church. Tickets £5, includes tea/coffee & home baking. Traditional Scottish music and more!
by Renfrewshire Local History Forum the History Spot
The Semple Tombs in Castle Semple Collegiate Church
Elizabeth West, Lochwinnoch Historical Society
Thanks to the care of Historic Scotland, the Collegiate Church on the Castle Semple Estate is one of the few buildings in this area which dates back to the start of the sixteenth century. The Semple family was one of the old Scottish families rewarded for their support of the King at the battle of Bannockburn by the granting of lands in the Lothians and at Largs. Continued support of the monarch resulted in a knighthood being conferred on John Semple by King James I in 1430. Sir William Semple of Ellieston received the charter of the Baronies of Ellieston and Castletoun in 1474 and another John Semple became the first Lord Semple in 1488.
Lord Semple constructed a home at Castleton on the site of Castle Semple House and moved from the tower house at Ellieston in Howwood. In 1504, he founded the Collegiate Church alongside Castleton, “Built to the Glory of God and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for the prosperity of his Sovereign Lord King James IV, and Queen Margaret, his Royal Consort” and the souls of his ancestors and descendants.
The following year King James IV visited Lord Semple, but sadly, only eight years later, both John and his King died at the Battle of Flodden. The finely carved tomb of Lord Semple and his first wife, Margaret Colvil, is set into the wall of the Collegiate Church.
Another Semple gravestone propped upright inside the north wall of the ruined church is in memory of Gabriel Semple. The inscription reads
‘HEIR
LYIS GABRIEL S EM P EL BROTHER TO CA ROBERT SEMPEL OF CRAIGBAIT QVHA DECEISIT YE 4 OF MAI AN 1587’. This Gabriel was the grandson of Gabriel Semple, a younger son of the 1st Lord Semple . It is said that other Semple burials lie in lead coffins under the floor of the church.
© 2011 Elizabeth West, Lochwinnoch Historical Society
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