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Castle Semple Collegiate Church is a fifteenth-century foundation located near Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The church was established as a collegiate foundation, a common form of ecclesiastical institution in late medieval Scotland, and was associated with the nearby Castle Semple and the local Sempill family who held considerable power in the region. The surviving remains include elements of the church structure that demonstrate the architectural character of a substantial collegiate establishment from this period. The site remains an important record of medieval religious and aristocratic life in southwest Scotland.
Castle Semple Collegiate Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90067. View the official record →
Castle Semple Collegiate Church is a fifteenth-century foundation located near Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90067.
Castle Semple Collegiate Church is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM90067.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Elliston Castle (1.6 km), Castle Semple Loch, tower house to S of loch (1.9 km), Marshall Moor, fort 780m NW of Bower (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Castle Semple Collegiate Church's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Castle Semple Collegiate Church stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.