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Tullibody, Old Church

Burial Ground (Early Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Commemorative Monument (17th Century)

Site Name Tullibody, Old Church

Classification Burial Ground (Early Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Commemorative Monument (17th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Old Church Of Tullibody; Auld Kirk

Canmore ID 47057

Site Number NS89NE 13

NGR NS 86035 95314

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Clackmannan
  • Parish Alloa
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Clackmannan
  • Former County Clackmannanshire

Archaeology Notes

NS89NE 13 8604 9532

For 'Maiden Stone' (long cist or coffin), see NS89NE 17.

(NS 8603 9532) Church (NR)

OS 6" map (1958)

See also NS89NE 54.

The roof and glazing of the old church of Tullibody were removed in 1916. It was a Romanesque structure rebuilt in the 16th century and subsequently slightly altered and added to.

RCAHMS 1933

The walls of this church are still standing to their original height. A date stone is in position over the eastern door.

Visited by OS (FDC) 3 July 1950.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office:

GD/124/17/674/1, p35 Report on worrk made by Rober Logan, Architect, Stirling, 1848

Removal and replacement of the stone slates on the roof of Tullibody Church. Payment of £60 to John Paterson, Slater.

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Field Visit (2 May 1928)

Parish Church, Tullibody.

The old church of Tullibody is now a mere shell, the roof and glazing having been removed as recently as 1916. It is oblong on plan, measuring 63 feet 1 inch by 22 ¼ feet, and evidently represents the nave of a Romanesque structure which has been rebuilt in the 16th century, and subsequently slightly altered and added to. The walls are complete and, with the exception of the east gable, which occupies the site of the chancel archway, they contain much cubical ashlar. To the north there has been a single opening, a small 16th-century window, now built up. The south wall has two doorways with moulded 16th-century architraves, the eastern bearing on the lintel a pastoral staff flanked by the date ANNO 1539. Between the doors are two lintelled windows, and there is a third window, which has a mullion, at the east end of the same wall. Two comparatively modern windows have been inserted in the west gable, which is surmounted by a belfry of late type.

Within the church, beside the western door, is a built-up benatura, and at the south. end of the east gable is a 16th-century locker. Against the east gable is the large Renaissance monument of George Abercromby of Tullibody, who died in 1699. His arms are in the pediment: Within a bordure engrailed, on a chevron between three boars' heads erased, a mullet. Outside the church, some 4 yards north of the north wall, lies a stone coffin measuring 7 feet in length and 2 feet 9 inches in greatest width, with a section of the coped cover on the top.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 2 May 1928.

Note (1978)

Tullibody NS 860 953 NS89NE 13

Romanesque church, rebuilt in the 16th century, but roofless since 1916, stands within cemetery; datestone of 1539 over the door in the S wall.

RCAHMS 1978

(RCAHMS 1933, p.308, No. 586)

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