Erskine Monument, Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Monument.
Erskine Monument, Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling
- WRENN ID
- tilted-ember-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Peddie & Kinnear, 1859. Classical, 3-stage, domed monument to Ebenezer Erskine, marking site of tomb in former church (see Notes). Sandstone ashlar; 30' high, 15'6" square; low coped rubble boundary walls and decorative inset ironwork railings.
ALL ELEVATIONS: 3 steps up to fielded plinth with cavetto cornice giving way to paired, Corinthian columns at outer angles, similar smaller columns to recessed centre flanking round-headed arch with carved spandrels and keystones: plain frieze with dentilled, moulded cavetto cornice below 3rd stage with urn resting on scrollwork plinth to each angle and set-back drum with blind, round-headed arcade and fishscale-patterned dome with elaborately carved finial.
NE ELEVATION: frieze inscribed 'EBENEZER ERSKINE'.
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