The castle suffered a partial collapse after a spell of heavy rain in the late 1970s.
Glasgow, unlike a number of other major European cities, is not renowned for its abundance of medieval architecture - which makes the fairly recent destruction of historic Cathcart Castle all the more hard to take.
Overlooking the Cart two miles south of Glasgow, the five-storey main tower of the castle managed to stand solid for hundreds of years. Then, around 1750, it was abandoned, and a gradual decay set in. Cathcart Castle's descent into ruin appears to have begun when the building was bought in the 18th century by a Glasgow tradesman, who sought to strip it of its materials and use them elsewhere.
While the tradesman had been unsuccessful in dismantling the castle, they had managed to remove the roof - which would set the wheels in motion for its eventual demise. Following weeks of heavy rain during 1979, surveyors discovered that the front face of the tower had almost completely collapsed, leaving the rest of the building in a precarious state.
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