Former watch house and boundary walls at Logie Old Church, Bridge of Allan is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 September 1973. 1 related planning application.

Former watch house and boundary walls at Logie Old Church, Bridge of Allan

WRENN ID
secret-eave-sable
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 September 1973
OS grid reference
NS 815 969
Coordinates
56.15046, -3.90863
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Churchyard at Logie Old Church, Bridge of Allan

The churchyard at Logie Old Church is enclosed by a rubble-built boundary wall with squared coping and contains two archways with entrance gates on its southwest and northwest sides. Adjacent to the southwestern entrance stands a small, single-storey former watch house built of random rubble with a slate roof, a central door in its east elevation, and a chimney stack to the north. The interior of the watch house is simple, with a stone flagged floor and small fireplace.

The churchyard contains more than 350 gravestones spanning from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The earliest gravestones are located in the south section, laid out in regular rows, many displaying fine carvings. To the north lies a series of burial enclosures and memorial stones, largely of 19th and early 20th century date, arranged in less regular fashion. Among these is a stone commemorating William York MacGregor, the artist and co-founder of the Glasgow School, dated 1923. The churchyard also contains two 11th century hogback stones, which are scheduled monuments and excluded from this listing.

The earliest recorded stone was erected in 1598 in memory of James Kidstone and his wife Margaret Alexander. Many memorials from the late 17th century onwards display high-quality craftsmanship, featuring memento mori decorative symbols and images relating to death and mortality. Some stones bear symbols representing trades practised within the parish. The curving boundary of the churchyard suggests an origin as an early medieval ecclesiastical enclosure, a form reinforced by the presence of the 11th century hogback stones in the eastern section.

The churchyard is shown on Roy's map of 1747–52, and both the watch house and enclosing walls are depicted on the 1862 Ordnance Survey map. The churchyard is sited on raised ground around the scheduled Logie Old Church and makes a significant contribution to its setting.

Local climate

Former watch house and boundary walls at Logie Old Church, Bridge of Allan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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