Most of the Kinross coachbuilding family are buried in graveyard of the 15th Century Holy Rude Kirk, on the top of Castle Hill, Stirling. Rude means cross.
The nave has a fine medieval timber roof, whilst the tower has small pits. These pits are musket and cannon ball marks, probably caused when Cromwell's General Monck used the tower as a gun battery to attack Stirling Castle in 1651.
There was a religious dispute in 1656 and the congregation built a wall dividing the church in two, each with its own minister, which was not removed until 1936!
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