Later 11th cent. Romanesque. Much altered. Originally consisted of aisleless Nave and Chancel. Coursed rubble. Skew-gabled with belfry (for sanctus bell) at E end of Nave. Slated roofs. Round-headed S doorway (now built up) of Nave.
ADDITIONS: W facade (1893) with wheel window and round-arched doorway; Philipstoun Burial Enclosure (1723), Binns Aisle (1618) containing mural monuments (1633, 1642), and Duddingston Burial Aisle (1603 and 1612) all on S side; Hopetoun Aisle (by Sir William Bruce 1708, carving by William Eizat, painting by Richard Waitt) on N side especially notable, with burial vault and retiring rooms, also Nave Aisle (1893) with Belfry.
Church on supposed site of Abercorn Monastery.
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One of the most important prehistoric sites on mainland Scotland, Cairnpapple was used as a burial and ceremonial site from about 3000 to 1400 BC. At about 310m or just over 1,000ft in height, the hill offers a fine viewpoint in central Scotland.
In around 3000BC, our Neolithic ancestors built a henge here. This was made up of a circular ditch about 1m deep surrounded by an earth bank 1.2m high, probably intended to screen the interior from view. Within the ditch was a ring of 24 large wooden posts. The finished henge would have looked a little like the stone henge at the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, but being less durable than stone the wooden posts have long since disappeared, leaving only the holes in which they stood.
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13th-15th century Gothic church. Originally cruciform. Transepts and Crossing (with Tower over) remain. Ashlar. Corbie-step gables. Angle-buttresses. Exquisite traceried windows, one in each transept, and ribbed vaulting to transept and crossing, fine carved archway in the latter, with tomb recess and piscina in the south transept.
Curious and atmospheric relic; the crossing and two transepts of the only house of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland. The “vanished” choir may actually never have been built: the parish kirk occupies the site of the nave.
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