Erskine Monument, Erskine Marykirk Church, 29 St John Street, Stirling

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1965 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Burgh Stirling NGR NS 79286 93618 Coordinates 279286, 693618 — 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.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.