Alloa St John's Episcopal Church

Clackmannanshire

In Person

This fine church was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in a simple Geometric style, with a separate bell-tower and tall, broach spire. It is one of the most beautifully designed and finished Episcopal churches in Scotland. It was built for Walter Coningsby Erskine, Earl of Mar & Kellie, as a gift to the congregation. 

The ornate interior includes stained glass by C A Gibbs (1869), C E Kempe (1890, 1902), Douglas Strachan (1913) and Margaret Chilton (1939) gifted by the Erskine family, William Bailey of Alloa Pottery and the Younger family, brewers in Alloa. There is also a Sicilian marble altar with a reredos mosaic by Salviati of Venice; and some very fine memorials, including an impressive marble effigy of Walter Coningsby Erskine, a World War I memorial designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and a chancel screen and accompanying memorial tablet of 1902 in memory of 2nd Lieutenant E J Younger, killed in the Boer War. The tablet contains an enamel by Phoebe Anna Traquair.

Stirling and Clackmannanshire Model Railway Club will be displaying a layout in the church on Saturday only from 11.00 to 3.00.

This is St John's Harvest Festival weekend and the church will also be decorated to celebrate this.

Please note that the Harvest Sunday service is from 10.30 - 11.30 and Evensong begins at 3.00.

Facilities

• Disabled Access
• Disabled WC
• WC
• Refreshments
• Parking

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