Alloa St John's Episcopal Church
Clackmannanshire
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.
Facilities
Gallery
Key Information
Guided tours of the church are available.
This is St John's Harvest Festival weekend and the church will be decorated beautifully to celebrate this.
Please note that the Sunday service is from 10.30 - 11.30 and Evensong begins at 3.30.
Where to find us
Address
- Broad Street
- Alloa
- FK10 1AN