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Shottskirk otherwise known as Kirk O' Shotts Parish Church is a local parish church located in Salsburgh North Lanarkshire and serves the village of Salsburgh, town of Shotts and the hamlets in between. ==About The Church== The church is still operational and is a category "B"〔http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7535&p=0〕 listed building.〔http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/46737/details/kirk+of+shotts+st+catherine+s+chapel+kirk+well+and+martyr+s+grave/〕 It can be seem from the nearby M8 motorway and is often illuminated at night. The graveyard contains stones from 1624 during the covenanters times. The nearby Fortissat area contains the remains of the fortissat stone, a covenanters gathering place. Shotts itself contains several covenanters monuments as does nearby Harthill and Allanton. Kirk O' Shott's Church also goes by the more affectionate title "The M8 Church" for its location on a hillock alongside the busy M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Church was formerly a Catholic place of worship under the name Saint Catherines Chapel. Close on five hundred and fifty years ago Bothwell and Shotts formed one Parish which stretched from the Clyde to Linlithgowshire, and from the North to the South Calder. In this large area there were four places of worship, one of which was situated in the middle Bothwellmuir at “a desert place called Bertram-Shotts”. Bertram was reputed to be a Giant who lived in the area and terrorised travellers on the Glasgow/Edinburgh road. A reward was offered for his capture - dead or alive - and was claimed by William Muirhead who lay in wait for Bertram when the latter came to his favourite drinking place - a spring of water on the hillside above Shottsburn. He hamstrung him and, as the giant lay laughing up at him, he cut off his head with the words, “Will ye laugh-up yet?” It was on Bertram's plot of land that St. Catherine’s Chapel was built in 1450. It was dedicated to “the blessed Virgin and Catherine of Sienna”. Many have wondered what connection St. Catherine could possibly have with the area. In 1457 the parish of Shotts was detached from Bothwell barony and the eastern half was given to Lord Hamilton, who re-founded and probably rededicated the Chapel, also founding a hospital at the same place for the reception of the poor, which he endowed with some lands from Kinneal. His foundation was confirmed by a Bull of Pope Sixtus IV, on 30 April 1476 – St. Catherine’s Feast Day. Hence possibly the reason for the name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shottskirk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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