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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Logie Old Kirk (Stirling)Country: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Stirling
Map Ref: NS81549696
Latitude: 56.150567N Longitude: 3.90846W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Anne T visited on 26th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Hogbacks at Logie Old Kirk, Stirling: To reach the church from the University Halls of Residence, we had to walk through the gardener’s compound/offices. The top two gates around the churchyard were locked; the actual entrance was next to the small stone building to the south of the churchyard, near the stream, with an information board by a small car park, so there is access from the main road.
The churchyard is full of wonderful (morbid!) tombstones. Could have spent the day photographing them. It was also a lovely location with a small stream trickling along the eastern side of the churchyard.
Found one hogback SE of the church, the second is just a lump at the end (by the church) of the 6th row of graves, counting from the stream at the east end of the churchyard. A wonderful location. Really could have spent hours here.
In the churchyard of Old Logie Kirk can be found one complete hogback and one fragment, both early medieval. The kirk, now a ruin, was built in around 1560, and forms part of a Kirkyard Trail. The churchyard is roughly oval in shape with a stream (the Logie burn) running along its eastern boundary.
Recorded as Canmore ID 47165, which tells us: "A hog-backed tombstone lies in the graveyard, SE of the Old Logie church. It is 5'8" long and tapers, at ground level, from a breadth of 14 1/2" at the head to 8" at the foot. The N side shows traces of ornamentation representing tiles. Another hog-back was turned out of the graveyard about 1907, and a fragment of it, found and replaced in 1927, is probably the rounded lump now set as a headstone at the N end of the sixth row of tombstones. There are also nearly a hundred stones dated before 1707, mostly falling in the last quarter of the 17th century in the graveyard." These fascinating tombstones carved with symbols of trades and mortality.
The kirk lies just to the north east of Stirling University Student's Union Community, which can be reached by road off the B998. To get to the actual church from the nearby Airthrey Castle Standing Stone requires walking through the grounds of the gardening maintenance contractors; if driving, there is a small side road which leads to the south of this churchyard, which branches off to Logie and Carlie Cottages, which lie to the east of the kirk. There is a small parking area to the south of the church, by the main access into the churchyard, with an information board.
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