Spring Parish Church Luthrie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of the parish church on visit to Luthrie, Fife. This is a Gothic style church, built in 1832 to a design by the architect William Stirling, as a Church of Scotland church. It is located on the east side of Luthriebank Road. The building is of coursed whinstone with a slate roof. It is rectangular, consisting of a nave and west tower. The tower has a date stone on the west face which reads 1830. William Stirling was born in Dunblane on 15 October 1772, the eldest son of James Stirling, wright and cabinetmaker, who came from a long established Dunblane merchant family. He commenced practice as an architect builder as his father's partner in 1798. On 4 December 1803 at Kirkintilloch he married Jean Erskine, daughter of David Erskine, of Dundas & Wilson, who had died in 1791; her maternal grandmother was Mrs Graham of Airth, who was a Stirling of Ardoch. This brought family links with other branches of the Erskine, Stirling and Graham families, and with the related Masterton family, resulting in him gaining the architectural business of the Linlathen, Airth, Gartmore, Ardoch, Braco, Gogar and Strowan estates in addition to those of Kippendavie, Kippenross, Tillicoultry, Airthrey, Tullibody, Dunira and Cardross. From 1806 onwards Stirling began buying land and property around Dunblane and out of some eleven purchases created the small estate of Holmehill on which in 1826 he erected a fine Tudor mansionhouse, very much in the Hamilton idiom. He died on 5 February 1838 and was buried in Dunblane Cathedral Churchyard alongside his younger brother Robert who had returned from Jamaica in 1819 and had died on 27 January 1832.

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