Strathmore Aisle, St Fergus's Church, Kirkwynd, Glamis is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Burial vault.

Strathmore Aisle, St Fergus's Church, Kirkwynd, Glamis

WRENN ID
eternal-gateway-wren
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Burial vault
OS grid reference
NO 386 468
Coordinates
56.60953, -3.00117
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a 15th-century burial aisle, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. It is likely the transept of a former church and stands near the village of Kirkwynd, Glamis. Constructed of red sandstone ashlar with dressed margins and quoins, the aisle has a flat-roofed ashlar bay to the east. A part of the base is raised and battered, with stepped blocking courses to a crenellated flat-roofed bay. Segmental and Tudor-arched openings are present, along with an embrasured, traceried window on the south side, and a roll-moulded and chamfered doorway. The windows feature voussoirs and stone mullions.

The south elevation displays a single-gabled bay to the left, featuring a broad doorway with a two-leaf timber door and an escutcheon inscribed with what appears to be the date 1742. Above the doorway is a three-light traceried window, and a sundial dated 1771 is positioned on a carved corbel in the gablehead, which is finialled with a stone lion and shield on a square plinth. A crenellated bay sits to the right, featuring a blinded Tudor-arched window and flanking pilasters.

On the west elevation, a canopied black marble mural tablet with Corinthian columns, carved spandrels, and a decorative cornice is located to the right of centre. A pedimented stone is set to the right, and a plain round-headed red marble tablet appears to the outer right. A church dated 1793 adjoins the burial aisle at the northwest angle.

The north elevation has a small, piended link to the right with a segmental-headed window, and the gablehead finial depicts a griffon displaying a shield with a rampant lion.

The east elevation features an advanced, flat-roofed bay to the left, showcasing a four-light Tudor-arched window and pilastered angles, each with a blank, eroded shield.

The roof is covered with grey slate, with ashlar-coped skewes and flat skewputts.

Inside, a sacrament house is present with an ogee-arched aumbry. The flanking shields display the lion of Glamis on the left and the lion of Glamis and Ogilvy impaled on the right. The stone groin-vaulted roof features bosses, corbels, and keystones carved with coronets, lions of Glamis, and lions of Glamis and Ogilvy, along with grapes in bold relief. An altar-shaped tomb commemorates Patrick Lyon, the first Lord Glamis, who died in 1459, and his wife, Isabella Ogilvy, daughter of Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, who was interred beside him in 1484. A short, octagonal pillar with a decorative capital is also present. A stone stair leads down to the burial vault of the Lyon family beneath a stone pavement.

Local climate

Strathmore Aisle, St Fergus's Church, Kirkwynd, Glamis sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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