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
St Ninian's Old Parish Church, located on Kirk Wynd in Stirling, has fragmentary remains that date from several periods. The only remaining part of the nave is a detached pier from the 15th century, which consists 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 features a blocked tripartite window on the south side and a round-arched doorway on the north. Inside, there is an aumbry and an unusual piscina with two arched recesses.
The steeple, built by Robert Henderson and Charles Bachop, master masons from Stirling, in 1734, is fully preserved. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar margins and rusticated quoins, rising in four stages with string courses leading to a moulded cornice and an ashlar dome flanked by urns. The dome carries a drum with a small cupola, and there is a clock at the top stage of the tower, with its mechanism replaced in 1901. The tower also includes a re-used coped stone decorated with two incised circles filled with smaller incised circles, resembling a hogback monument and possibly dating to the 10th or 11th century. Attached to the west wall of the tower is the Auchenbowie burial enclosure, featuring convex rusticated gatepiers designed by Henderson and Bachop, which also dates to 1734.
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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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