Trinity Gask Parish Church And War Memorial

NN91NE 40.00 96263 18297

NN91NE 40.01 Centred NN 96257 18278 Churchyard

(Trinity-Gask and Kinkell). These parishes were united about the middle of the 17th century. Trinity-Gask church was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and beside it was the Trinity Well. The church belonged to the Abbey of Inchaffray. (The union of the parishes is also said to have taken place in 1639).

H Scott 1915-61.

NMRS REFERENCE:

Trinity Gask Session House was demolished c. 1962.

(Undated) information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.

Trinity Gask (Dunblane) was granted to Inchaffray by Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn (1221x3), corporal possession had evidently not been obtained in 1234, but this must have been effected shortly after that date as a vicarage settlement was confirmed in 1238. The vicarage thereafter remained with the abbey, and the vicarage appears normally to have been held by one of the canons.

I B Cowan 1967.

A rectangular slab, dimensions 161.5cm by 53.5cm formerly largely grassed over, lies down the slope to the south of the church. It has a black letter inscription running along the edges, and the sacred monogram IHS towards one end. The slab is somewhat damaged, but most of the lettering is intact. After a cross pattee, the beginning and end of the inscription can be transcribed - Hic iacet...qui obiit anno d(omi)ni MCCCCLXXX.

N Robertson 1988.

The parish church of Trinity Gask occupies a terrace at the upper end of its graveyard, which lies on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Earn. It is a simple rectangular structure with the later additions of a porch, an office and a vestry, but details of the walls are concealed by a coat of white harling. The W gable is surmounted by a 19th-century bellcote which houses a bell bearing the date 1838.

The medieval grave-slab that is recorded by Robertson lies 23m S of the SW angle of the church. In front of the church door a grave-slab bearing a splay-ended hammer with a crossed set-square and adze has been incorporated into the paving. Beside the door there lies a roughly-shaped sandstone mortar measuring 0.49m in diameter by 0.26m in height. Propped against the interior of the S wall of the kirkyard, there is an 18th-century stone bearing in relief, the image of Death with the imperial crown, an hour-glass and a dart.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 23 October 1995.