https://www.burntshields.com/home daily 1.0 2020-12-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/5fca4ca2822fbd3263ebcfa8/1607100671754/BurntshieldsFront2.jpg Burntshields The history of Burntshields https://www.burntshields.com/history daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/5f85cf30cf575a4593a892c8/1602604893773/BurntshieldsFront2.jpg Overview Burntshields House, early 1900’s https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/5f85d32153d42d1331e90a99/1602606072818/1590+Map.PNG Overview Pont 33 map, 1590 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/5fca6395f0337c20475c4534/1607099310938/1860+OS.PNG Overview In 1745 a large secessionist church known as the Burgher Church was built by a congregation in the field immediately to the west of Burntshields and occupied until 1826. All that remains today is part of the west wall incorporated into the field boundary. The associated Vicar's Manse stood until at least 1910 and the church schoolhouse is presently a barn attached to the Meikle Burntshields farmhouse. it is unclear whether the marble font in the garden at Burntshields was from that church. Sometime around 1820 the house was built, possibly using the stone from the Burgher Church. Substantial modifications and additions where to follow. The Ordnance Survey map of 1860 gives us the first documented plan layout of Burntshields at the time of the Crawfords. It was a traditional U-shaped holding including the hallway and tower of the present house and the enclosed backyard. There was a straight front driveway direct to the road just to the east of the current paddock fence following the line of the older beech trees. The Crawfords sold Burntshields in 1896 to a wealthy Glasgow manufacturer from Caldergrove, Lanarkshire - Robert Cowan Marshall in whose family it remained for some 75 years. It seems Robert Cowan Marshall had inherited the family tube manufacturing business from his father but sold his interest and retired around the time he bought Burntshields. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca6783ddf0471db5d49ef7/1607099860802/scan152910607.jpg Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca678b9e96e23453fdbf12/1607100088652/scan152841616.jpg Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca6791c50fa636063d4f1f/1607099909401/scan152926316.jpg Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca679af0337c20475d19fb/1607099998791/scan152944957.jpg Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca67a2ace184351388f6fd/1607099958172/scan15295578.jpg Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/5fca6775ace184351388efc8/5fca67a61cd998124d51983b/1607100142498/scan152848968.jpg Overview https://www.burntshields.com/stained-glass-by-oscar-patterson daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/6001b35303e2c15134004c9e/1610724210307/Oscar+Paterson.jpg Stained Glass by Oscar Patterson Oscar Patterson https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba62c84c5f05161de10d06/t/6001b43d956b4646552ebed0/1610724577773/StainedGlassBurntshields.jpg Stained Glass by Oscar Patterson Oscar Patterson’s work Text comes from the The Old Wives' Prayer by poet Robert Herrick Holy-Rood, come forth and shield Us i' th' city and the field; Safely guard us, now and aye, From the blast that burns by day; And those sounds that us affright In the dead of dampish night; Drive all hurtful fiends us fro, By the time the cocks first crow. Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)