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Latitude: 56.12 / 56°7'11"N
Longitude: -3.9432 / 3°56'35"W
OS Eastings: 279286
OS Northings: 693618
OS Grid: NS792936
Mapcode National: GBR 1C.LG3F
Mapcode Global: WH4P6.DFJP
Plus Code: 9C8R4394+XP
Entry Name: Erskine Monument, Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling
Listing Name: St John Street, Ebenezer Erskine Monument
Listing Date: 4 November 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 387183
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41088
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Erskine Ebenezer Memorial
Stirling, 29 St John Street, Erskine Marykirk Church, Erskine Monument
ID on this website: 200387183
Location: Stirling
County: Stirling
Town: Stirling
Electoral Ward: Stirling North
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
Tagged with: Monument
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'.
The original Erskine Church was erected in 1740 for Rev Ebenezer Erskine and his seceding congregation; he died in 1754 and was buried within this building. The old church was replaced in 1824-6 by a classical building (now facade only) with the original site converted to a garden in which this monument was erected.
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