Sundrum Castle is located 1.5 kilometres north of Coylton. It was originally built in the 14th century for Sir Duncan Wallace, Sheriff of Ayr, and considered one of the oldest inhabited castles in Scotland. Long-term owners included the Cathcart family, and the Hamilton family, who expanded it the 1790s, incorporating the original keep into a mansion.
It was further expanded in the early 20th century by Earnest Coats. For a time it was then a hotel, though fell into disrepair. After extensive renovations in the 1990s, it was split into multiple privately owned properties. The Sundrum estate now also includes a holiday park.
The castle is split into three separate properties, consisting of the original tower keep, and separate Georgian and Victorian wings, each with their own style.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.