Description

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'.

Statement of Interest

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17842618

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)