The church is a handsome essay in Gothic revival style, built in 1827 to the designs of architect William Stirling, and occupying a superb, elevated position overlooking the carse lands (carse is a Scots name for a type of flat area in a river valley) about a mile from the town. Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument can be clearly seen from the church grounds. The interior is a period piece of controlled dignity and beauty, containing in its loft, vaults and monuments the influence of an old landed family, the Stirlings of Keir, built in the age of patronage. This late Georgian church is an early example of its style in Scotland, in company with the other nearby carse Kirks of Kippen and Kincardine in Menteith.