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No. 128 -- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS -- No. 130
Row 9. ¹ (H) 1690; IB EM / IB AL / WB HB. 1664;
DB MR. 1696; DB AH / [?] B I[C or G]. 1696; DB
AH / WB [?]. (H) 1690; DB AH. (H) 1693; RM MB
on upper edge; RM SF. (H) 1682; HG EP. (H) 1691;
IH IR / AH / IK KH. 1700; RC / IC. (H) 1705; WW
EE.
Row 10. (H) 1690 [? IL IK]. 1693; IA IM / TA
EA / IA MW / TA KH IA IN 1763 / IA MG. 1692;
DL ME DL EB / DL IM DL MR / IL MG AL IP / IL
[? AR] / DL ME. 1707; [?] IS / [?I] G IG / [?] G IG.
[H) 1690; PG ML. (H) 1691. (H) 1691; IG KM. Stone
vi (supra).
Row 11. 1693; ID GB / TD B [?] / PD [?] / WD
P [?] / RD IA. (H) 1704; IH ME IH IR. 1664; IL /
MP / IL [?I] B / IL IR / IL [?] A. Stone vii (supra).
1664; half a re-used slab with IM / FP in different
styles. Stone viii (supra). 1664; contemporary com-
memoration erased. (H) 1697; FM / [?E] H. 1700;
RG CI. 1700. RG CI, a later duplicate of the preceding
stone. (H) 1695; RT. Stones ix and x (supra). (H)
1691; IG KM. Stone xi (supra). 1691; TH AL.
Row 12. 1700; IG MD / HA CG. Stone xii (supra).
1696; IB IM / IB MT. (H) 1690; AR AS. (H) 16 [?7] 9;
WD AB. (H) 168 [?]; ER GH. 1705; RI EG. (H) 1691;
RI EG. (H) 1691; RI EG. (H) 1702; IW IR IW HE / IW
AD AW MH / WW AL IW AH. (H) 1702; IG EB.
Row 13. 1662; IC IG. Hog-backed stone (supra)
Row 14. ² (H) 1705; IR IB. (H) 1690; [?I] R MD.
(H) 1678; IC ID / IC MM. (H) 1679; RC IG. (H)
1694; IM MD.
Row 15. This row, which begins about half-way down
the graveyard and on its E. margin, contains only
Stone xiii (supra).

815969 -- NS 89 NW ("Church")
23 August 1952

128. Parish Church, Logie. The new parish church of
Logie was built in 1805, ³ perhaps to the design of the
Dunblane architect William Stirling, ⁴ but was enlarged
and greatly altered in 1901. ⁵ The tower, however, is
unchanged, and the pilasters at the corners of the
old portion of the body of the church are likewise
original. ⁶
The tower deserves mention as a good example of its
period. Built, like the body of the church, of dark grey
and brown whinstone with pale grey freestone dressings,
it is square on plan and has on the W. a round-headed
and a square-headed door, on the S. a large round-headed
blind window with a small flat one above it, and on the
E. a high window with a transom. At wall-head level it
shows a shallow pediment, and above this, on a plain
square base, stands an octagonal belfry with eight round-
headed openings, four of which are blind. From the
belfry, and divided from it by a cornice, there rises an
octagonal spire with three blind lucarnes in each of the
sides facing the cardinal points.

817967 -- NS 89 NW -- 16 August 1952

129. Blairlogie Church. This church stands in the
southern part of the village, facing the highway from
Causewayhead to Alva. It bears witness to the secession,
in 1761, of part of the congregation of Logie parish. ⁷ It
is a plain oblong building 50 ft. long by 35 ft. wide,
harled and with a slated roof; the E. gable is surmounted
by a bell-cote and the W. one by a finial. The S. side
(Pl. 13 B) shows three windows with backset margins.
each containing two lights with equilateral-arched
heads, and the W. gable a door S. of the central line and
two windows at an upper level; the N. side and E. gable
have no openings. On the W. gable there is a panel
inscribed THIS HOWSE WAS / BUILT AT THE EXPENCE /
OF THE DISSENTING / CONGREGATION OF / LOGIE
IN THE YEARS / 1761 & 1762. The pulpit is at the
W. end.

828968 -- NS 89 NW ("Ch.") -- 23 October 1952

130. Cambuskenneth Abbey. The ruins of Cambus-
kenneth Abbey lie on the left bank of the Forth, just
opposite the NE. part of Stirling. ⁸ The site is flat carse-
land, enclosed on three sides by a loop of the river. The
monastery, which for the first half-century or so of its
existence was known as the Abbey of St. Mary of Stirling,
was founded in or about 1140 by David I. ⁹ The com-
munity followed the Augustinian rule , but as a daughter-
house of the church of St. Nicholas, Arrouaise, no doubt
observed the more rigorous constitutions of the order of
Arrouaise for as long as the connection with the mother-
house was maintained. ¹⁰ The endowments of the Abbey
were extensive, and included not only property within
Stirlingshire (cf. p. 9), but also grants of land and
privileges in the counties of Perth, Angus, Fife, Aberdeen,
West Lothian, Midlothian, Dunbarton and Berwick. ¹¹
Largely no doubt because it stood in close proximity to
the Royal Castle of Stirling, the Abbey was the scene
of a number of important political events. In 1314, for
example, there was held at Cambuskenneth a Parliament
at which all who had fought on the English side at
Bannockburn and who had not come into the "faith and
peace" of Robert I were forfeited; ¹² while fourteen years

1 This row begins about half-way down the graveyard.
2 This row begins about half-way down the graveyard.
3 N.S.A., viii (Stirlinshire), 232.
4 This is suggested by an entry in the Heritors' Records of
the parish of Airth, under date 1st January 1816, preserved in
H.M. General Register House.
5 Fergusson, R. Menzies, Logie, A Parish History, i, 257.
6 Ibid. plate facing p. 212.
7 Small, R., History of the Congregations of the United
Presbyterian Church, ii, 695.
8 Direct access from the town is by footbridge only, the road
to the Abbey and to Cambuskenneth village branching off
Highway A 907 half a mile SE. of Causewayhead.
9 Easson, Religious Houses, 74; Barrow, G. W. S., "Scottish
Rulers and the Religious Orders", in T.R.H.S., 5th series,
iii (1953), 92 ff.
10 Barrow, op. cit., 96.
11 Cambuskenneth, xxiii.
12 Dickinson, W. Croft, Source Book of Scottish History, i,
126 f.

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