Thread by @dj_forrester

#Stirling Crawford’s Arcade / 1

Stirling Athenaeum built as town’s Merchant’s House, of 1816.

Stirling Municipal Buildings by Glasgow architect John Gaff Gillespie ( 1908, completed 1916)

Former High School of #Stirling by JM MacLaren (1887-90) Tower on left copied by Mackintosh for his Glasgow Herald building

Former sheriff court 5/

Tollbooth 6/

Church of the Holy Rood / 7 ( 14th century onwards)

Darrow Lodging (17th century) 8/

Cowane’s Hospital late 17th century /9

Another 17th century house in the Old Town /10

Mar’s Wark , the remains of a small palace of c 1570 for the first Earl of Mar /11

Argyll’s Lodging c1670 for the 9th Earl of Argyll /12

With my dad in graveyard of Holy Rude with #Stirling Castle In background 13/

Cofffee and cake/ 14

Norrie’s house 1671 15/

Norrie wearing long wig on apex 16/

Darnley’s House , late 16th/ early 17th century. A 19th century tablet on the facade suggests this was the nursery of James VI and his eldest son Prince Henry, but this is doubted 17/

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (“CB”) of Kelvinside, Glasgow and MP for Stirling and Liberal prime minister 1905-08 18/

J Gaff Gillespie’s Municipal buildings (1908, opened 1918). Unlike Mackintosh, Gillespie and James Salmon moved with the architectural times so this is Edwardian baroque with a touch of #GlasgowStyle 19/

Holy Trinity by Rowand Anderson and Robert Lorimer 20/

Our Lady of Cambuskenneth, a former 13th Century Stirling Abbey. It is said that the Battle of Stirling Bridge was fought on the Feast of the Dormition ( stained glass is modern).

Smith Art Gallery and Museum