St Ninian's Old Parish Church, Kirk Wynd, Stirling is a Grade A listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Church. 3 related planning applications.
St Ninian's Old Parish Church, Kirk Wynd, Stirling
- WRENN ID
- carved-facade-elder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The fragmentary remains of this church date from several periods. All that remains of the nave is a detached pier dating from the 15th century, consisting of four courses of masonry and a simply moulded capital. The square-ended roofless chancel dates from the early 16th century with the burial aisle of the Murrays of Touchadam added to the north in the 17th century. The chancel has a blocked tripartite window on the south side and a round-arched doorway on the north and inside there is an aumbry and an unusual piscina with two arched recesses. The steeple is preserved entire, constructed by Robert Henderson and Charles Bachop of Stirling, master masons, in 1734. It is of rubble with ashlar margins and rusticated quoins and rises in four stages with string courses to a moulded cornice and ashlar dome which is flanked by urns and carries a drum with small cupola. There is a clock at the top stage of the tower; the mechanism was replaced in 1901. The tower includes a re-used coped stone decorated with two incised circles filled with smaller incised circles. It resembles a hogback monument and may be 10th or 11th century in date. The Auchenbowie burial enclosure with convex rusticated gatepiers designed by Henderson & Bachop is attached to the west wall of the tower. Like the tower, it dates to 1734.
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