Tullibardine Chapel
Tullibardine Chapel is an ancient church building in Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is one of the most complete medieval churches in Scotland.[1] A large part of it dating to 1446,[2] it is now a scheduled monument.[3]
| Tullibardine Chapel | |
|---|---|
 2009 view, looking northeast | |
| 56°18′04″N 3°45′50″W | |
| Location | Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross |
| Country | Scotland |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine |
| Completed | 1446 |
The chapel was built by Sir David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine (formerly of Ochtertyre),[4] of Tullibardine Castle,[1] as a family chapel and burial site. Members of the Murray family (subsidiaries of the Dukes of Atholl)[1] were buried there until 1900. An armorial plaque on the north external wall of the chancel displays the coat of arms of David and his wife, Isabel Stewart.[1]
The chapel was rebuilt or extended with transepts and a small tower around 1500 by David's grandsons, William Murray (died 1513),[5] who built the "part towards the west where his father's coat of arms is impaled",[5] and Andrew Murray. Arms on the south transept gable relate to the marriage of Andrew Murray and Margaret Barclay. They were ancestors of the Murray of Balvaird family.[6]
The chapel has remained unaltered to this day.[3][1]
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View from the northeast
References
- Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)
- Tullibardine Chapel – Canmore
- Tullibardine Chapel, chapel 100m W of West Mains of Tullibardine – Historic Environment Scotland
- The Baronage of Scotland, Sir Robert Douglas (1798), p. 145
- The Peerage of England, Volume 7, Arthur Collins (1779), p. 86
- Richard Fawcett, Scottish Architecture: From the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation, 1371-1560 (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 219-221.