Lecropt Kirk Traditional Cache
The Gray Man: Old, and now too distant to maintain
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Microcache with pencil (if you're lucky...)
Stopped here to do Knock Hill (GC117J8), and felt the Kirk needed its own cache. Come on a Saturday in July or August and you can get summer tea in the church hall.
Lecropt is a handsome essay in Gothic revival style, built in 1827 to the designs of William Stirling, a local architect. It occupies a superb, elevated position overlooking the carse lands; Stirling castle and the Wallace monument can be clearly seen from the church grounds and is located about a mile from Bridge of Allan and 3 miles from Dunblane.
The interior is a period piece of controlled dignity and beauty, containing in its loft, vaults and monuments the influence of an old landed family, the Stirlings of Keir, built in the age of patronage. This late Georgian church is an early example of its style in Scotland, in company with the other carse Kirks of Kippen and Kincardine in Menteith.
There has been a church at Lecropt prior to 1827; the old kirk was built in 1400 in what is now the Keir estate although nothing remains of the Kirk. It is known that there was a church at Lecropt prior to 1260.
My thanks to my colleague Billy for creating this cache.
*** Another FTF to Scottiedogz, who must have had the engine revving just waiting for the new cache notification to come through... ***
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(Decrypt)
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