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Welcome back to Doors Open Days 2023!

With over 20 buildings opening for Stirling’s Doors Open Days, you can find out who built Stirling, learn about traditional skills and discover how an on-site restoration project is progressing, as well as getting into some nationally important buildings.

Instead of a paper booklet, we have an interactive digital map of the venues taking part in Stirling’s Doors Open Days. To view the map and download the digital map to your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or PC go to Open Doors Stirling 2023 (arcgis.com)

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Bannockburn House

Bannockburn House dates from around 1675 and is an outstanding example of a Scottish country house. This Category A Listed Building is of national importance and retains many original features as well as a long and significant history. Empty for over half a century, the house and gardens were bought by the local community and are now run by a group of dedicated volunteers who are creating a community hub and providing a range of activities and resources to benefit future generations.

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Camphill Blair Drummond

Camphill Blair Drummond is a rural community situated six miles from the historic city of Stirling, Scotland. We offer a home, meaningful activities and opportunities for personal development to adults with learning disabilities and other special needs. In all some 200 people live and work within Camphill Blair Drummond.

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Central Library

The Central Library is an ongoing impressive testimony to the generosity of the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and to the persistence of Provost George Kinross. This Category B Listed Building dates from1904 and was the first free library in Stirling, although not the first building Carnegie had contributed towards in the Stirling area. Built off the Old Town Wall, in the Scots Renaissance style, it has one of the most elaborate roofs in Stirling.

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Central Scotland Islamic Centre

Everyone is welcome. Come and take a guided tour of the building or collect a leaflet and have a look around yourself. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet members of the local Muslim community and learn about the centre. There will be opportunities to ask questions of the tour guides and the Imam of the Mosque on any aspect of Islamic tradition or teachings.

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Church of the Holy Rude

One of the most important and historic buildings in Stirling and beyond. Surrounded by four of the Top of the Town graveyards, the Category A Listed Church of the Holy Rude dates from at least the 1400s and is the second oldest building in Stirling. A mighty place of worship for over 600 years, it is where King James VI was crowned. The building retains visible musket shot-holes on its tower wall from when Stirling Castle was under siege in 1651.

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Cowane’s Hospital

Cowane’s Hospital Trust was established in 1637 and is Scotland’s second oldest surviving charitable trust. The Category A Listed Building Cowane’s Hospital, set within stunning gardens at the Top of the Town, was founded by John Cowane for poor members of the local Merchant Guild. Originally two storeys inside it was altered in 1852 to form a Guild Hall with a viewing gallery, minstrel’s gallery and elongated windows throughout.

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Gargunnock Parish Church

Gargunnock Kirk is Category B Listed and dates from 1628. The picturesque T-plan building, with three sets of external stairs leading to separate Lairds lofts. It sits at the historic heart of the village of Gargunnock, where there has been a church in one form or another for over 500 years. The kirk was altered in 1774 and has had a number of internal refurbishments since. It contains a Robert Lorimer war memorial and pulpit and has two good 20thcentury stained glass windows which are attributed to William Wilson and Douglas Hamilton. The church is set within its graveyard.

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Kippen Parish Church

Situated in the picturesque village of Kippen is the Category B Listed Kippen Parish Church. A church in Kippen was first mentioned in public records in the 1300s, the existing church dates from 1825 and was enlarged in 1928. These works resulted in a beautiful sanctuary which reflected some of the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement and it is thought that much is owed to the input of knowledge, taste and contacts of the prominent Scottish artist, Sir David Young Cameron, who lived in the parish for 46 years. This is a well-loved church building which contains a stunning wealth of arts and craftsmanship within it and it is definitely well worth the trip to Kippen to see.

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Kippen Smiddy

The Smiddy is located next to The Cross in Kippen, right at the centre of the village, at the top of a cobbled slope in one of the most characterful streets in the Stirling area. It was used by the Rennie family as a blacksmiths for nearly 200 years until the mid-1980s. It is now cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, to whom it was donated by Andrew Rennie in 1985. Refurbished by the NTS in the early 1980s, this Category C Listed Building retains many of the features and tools from its use as a smiddy.

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Lecropt Kirk, Bridge of Allan

A familiar landmark to many, the stunning Category A Listed Lecropt Parish Church has overlooked the Carse since the early 1800s. Behind its unique façade, the interior boasts an arched and ribbed ceiling, plaster groin vaults and some of the most interesting windows within the Stirling area. The church contains the Keir loft and Stirling vault. William Stirling was the architect of the church.

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Bannockburn House

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Camphill Blair Drummond

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Central Library

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Central Scotland Islamic Centre

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Church of the Holy Rude

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Cowane’s Hospital

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Gargunnock Parish Church

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Kippen Parish Church

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Kippen Smiddy

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Lecropt Kirk, Bridge of Allan

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