Auld Kirkyard & Holy Rude Church
The Auld Kirkyard, has served the Church of the Holy Rude since the 12th-century, when Dominican friars built a wooden chapel on this site.
The oldest stone we can put a date to is a little more recent...1579.
A favourite haunt, according to legend, of Stirling’s Pink Lady. Supposedly a place of peace, it has been the site of battles between troops stationed within Stirling Castle and supporters of the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots (1571), Roundheads (1651) and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebels (1746).
The walls of the Holy Rude’s tower – and many of the older stones – are pock-marked by the musket-shot and cannon-fire of these conflicts.
- SYHA Youth Hostel, St John Street
- The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd
- Tolbooth Entrance, Jail Wynd
- Hangman's Close, St John Street
- Mercat Cross, Broad Street
- Broad Street
- Darnley Coffee House, Bow Street
- Mar's Wark, Castle Wynd
- Old Town Jail
- Holy Rude Church and Auld Kirkyard
- Auld Kirkyard & Holy Rude Church
- Ladies' Hill, Auld Kirkyard
- Mary Witherspoon's Grave, Auld Kirkyard
- Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Road
- Valley Cemetery
- John Cowane's Hospital, St John Street
- Auld Staney Breeks at Cowane's Hospital
- John Cowane's House on St Mary’s Wynd
- Argyll's Ludging, Castle Wynd
- The Back Walk & Burgh Wall
- Beheading Stone, Gowan Hill
- Stirling Castle
- Argyll's Museum, Stirling Castle
- The Settle Inn, St Mary's Wynd
- Nicky-Tam's Bar & Bothy, Baker Street
- Thistles Shopping Centre, Goosecroft Road
- The Bastion, The Thistles Shopping Centre
- Haunted Stirling
- The Golden Lion, King Street