The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Stirlingshire (pre-1975 traditional (Scotland))
Parish church
Inside the church of St Modan is a section of Romanesque cross, carved on two sides with one of the original cross arms missing. Repaired in 1632-3, the church was rebuilt in 1810-11, with only the lower part of the central tower (likely to be 15th century) and the upper section of about 1740 preserved from the previous church. This destroyed, earlier church appears to have been cruciform in shape and was likely a later-medieval building. No other part of the early church fabric was retained, though a few carved medieval stones survive.
Parish church
Inchcailleach is an island in Loch Lomond. The church of St Kentigerna survives as excavated footings only. It was a rectangle measuring 21.65 metres by 7.85 metres over walls 1 metre in thickness, and there was a wall separating chancel from nave located 7.16 metres west of the internal face of the east wall. Evidence was found of two doors in the south wall, one in the chancel and one in the nave. The south nave door had two orders supported by en delit shafts on water-holding bases, and two simple waterleaf capitals were found with incised lines running parallel to the outer edges of the leaves. One order of the door had a triplet of keeled rolls to the arch. Four voussoirs of a larger arch order, which was thought to have been from the chancel arch, had three rolls separated by spurs.
Graveyard
It has long been held that the old church at Logie was dedicated to St Serf, but there is no clear evidence for the dedication. In 1683, the church had become 'very ruinous' (Logie, A Parish History, I, 125), so substantial works on both the interior and exterior of the church were undertaken. 'The presbytrie met on March, 1686, thereafter for dividing of the church lately rebuilt there' (Logie, A Parish History, I, 132). Further repairs were made in the 18thc. In 1762 a group of dissatisfied parishioners established a new church, which they built at Blair Logie, a few miles away. By the early 19thc, it was decided that the fabric of the old church of Logie was irreparable, and a replacement church for it was built in 1805, less than half a mile away. The graveyard of the old church continued to be used. The ruins of the church survive. Following a meeting in late 1870, the old churchyard was ‘adjusted’ and ‘improved’ (Logie, A Parish History, I, 303). SE of the church is an intact medieval grave monument, likely to be of Romanesque date. Another grave stone is also known to have existed. This may now be represented by the row of somewhat jumbled stones lying north-south nearby.