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
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 792 936
- Coordinates
- 56.11999, -3.9432
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Erskine Monument, designed by Peddie & Kinnear in 1859, is a classical, three-stage, domed structure dedicated to Ebenezer Erskine. It marks the site of his tomb in the former church. The monument is built from sandstone ashlar and stands 30 feet high with a square base measuring 15 feet 6 inches on each side. Surrounding the monument are low coped rubble boundary walls and decorative ironwork railings.
All sides of the monument feature three steps leading up to a fielded plinth with a cavetto cornice. This leads to paired Corinthian columns at the outer corners, with smaller columns flanking a recessed center that contains a round-headed arch adorned with carved spandrels and keystones. Above this, there is a plain frieze topped with a dentilled, moulded cavetto cornice. The third stage is crowned with urns resting on scrollwork plinths at each corner, a set-back drum with a blind, round-headed arcade, and a fishscale-patterned dome topped with an elaborately carved finial.
On the northeast elevation, the frieze is inscribed with the name 'EBENEZER ERSKINE'.
Local climate
Erskine Monument, Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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