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Latitude: 56.1197 / 56°7'10"N
Longitude: -3.9435 / 3°56'36"W
OS Eastings: 279264
OS Northings: 693583
OS Grid: NS792935
Mapcode National: GBR 1C.LG1C
Mapcode Global: WH4P6.DFCY
Plus Code: 9C8R4394+VH
Entry Name: Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling
Listing Name: 29 St John Street, Erskine Marykirk
Listing Date: 4 November 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 387182
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41087
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200387182
Location: Stirling
County: Stirling
Town: Stirling
Electoral Ward: Stirling North
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
Tagged with: Church building
Allan Johnstone (Stirling), 1825-1826; altered, William Simpson, (Stirling) 1877. Classical former Secession church, abandoned 1968, set on fire 1980, all but facade destroyed, modern extension to rear built on conversion to residential, circa 1985. 2-storey, 5-bay divided by pilasters. Squared rubble with ashlar margins.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bays to centre advanced with pedimented portico. Entrance with round-headed fanlight at ground to centre. Round-headed windows in bays to right and left. Entrances in recessed round-arched panels with round-headed fanlights in outer bays. Regular round-headed fenestration above.
SIDE ELEVATION: harled wall with lean to at ground, round-arched windows above.
In the 1730's Ebenezer Erskine, one of the ministers of Stirling, left the Church of Scotland and in 1740 he and his followers built the first Secession Church roughly at the spot where the monument to him now stands (see separate listing). The monument was erected over his original tomb in 1859. The RIAS guide reports that the present church was built on what was the preaching green behind the original, the grand classical church with its pediment and pilasters was a symbol of the rising fortunes of the Seceders. The interior was acoustically perfect, and had a curved gallery, tiered seating and fine plasterwork. The name Marykirk derives from the 1934 merger between the Erskine, and the mission church in St Mary's Wynd.
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