Welcome to The Ghost Tower at Campsie High Kirk

Campsie High Kirk is a nationally significant heritage restoration and community regeneration project, now in community ownership and being brought back into use as a cultural and public space.

Set above Lennoxtown and overlooking the Campsie Hills, this A-listed landmark, designed by David Hamilton in 1828, stood for generations as the focal point of the community before a devastating fire in 1984 left it a roofless ruin, exposed and at risk of permanent loss. Today, that trajectory has changed.

Through the King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme, the building has been secured for the community, recognising its public value, its heritage importance, and its potential to deliver long-term social and economic benefit. This is not preservation for its own sake. It is restoration with purpose.

The Ghost Tower represents the re-emergence of Campsie High Kirk as a place of meaning, a space where heritage is retained, re-imagined, and returned to active use. The project is being delivered through a phased approach, stabilising and repairing the structure while opening it up as an accessible, open-air sanctuary for community, culture, and visitors.

The ambition is clear. Through its design, setting, and purpose, the Ghost Tower has the potential to become an iconic and internationally recognisable landmark. Positioned within the Campsie Corridor, a magnificent and largely untapped landscape only ten miles from Glasgow, it places Lennoxtown and the wider Campsie area on the same stage as Scotland’s better-known visitor destinations, not by imitation, but by offering something distinct, authentic, and rooted in its own heritage.