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If you're a visitor to Stirling, we invite you to come and see inside our beautiful church building. It's the only Episcopal church in Stirling and our fascinating history is displayed for all to see in its memorials and stained glass.
Built to the design of the renowned Scottish architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson between 1875 and 1878, this is a fine, little-altered example of the Victorian Gothic style of church architecture. Inside, it contains a remarkable collection of twenty-two stained glass windows, some of which are described as 'outstanding' in the Pevsner Architectural Guide, a remarkable set of memorial tablets dating back to the early 19th century and a Memorial Chapel created by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1920-21 which includes a wood-carved Roll of Honour. Information on these memorials and windows, including biographical details and photographs of many of the peeople commemorated, are at www.holytrinitystirling.org.
Open on Saturdays during summer months. Dates and times are announced at www.holytrinitystirling.org.
Also open for services at 11:00 on Fridays and 10:30 on Sundays throughout the year, but visitors must be willing to take part in the service.
Admission is free but donations are accepted gratefully.
Website: www.holytrinitystirling.org
Begun in the early 15th century and still with its original oak roof beams, this is one of Scotland's finest medieval parish churches.
The Reformation was far more extreme in Scotland, the destruction of medieval buildings more thorough. The Calvinists not only rejected ornaments in places of worship, but the churches themselves. The Holy Rude is one of the few medieval parish churches to have escaped destruction, losing its ornamentation, but the basic fabric of the church survived intact.
Website:
www.holyrude.org
Open daily: 11:00 - 16:00,
Easter - 1 October
(including weekends and public holidays)
Admission by donation.
In 1904, the famous Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed the chancel furniture of pulpit, organ screen, communion table and choir stall. Carved in light oak and using natural plant forms interpreted in flutes and ovals in related parts of the furniture, it is described as one of the most intricate of Mackintosh's designs. Mackintosh became involved at The Parish Church through his partner John Honeyman of Honeyman and Kepple Architects, to whom Mackintosh was first apprenticed in 1889.
Admission is free but donations to church maintenance are gratefully accepted
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