Tullibardine Chapel | |
Location: | Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross |
Country: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 56.3011°N -3.7638°W |
Architect: | David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine |
Tullibardine Chapel is an ancient church building in Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is one of the most complete medieval churches in Scotland. A large part of it dating to 1446,[1] it is now a scheduled monument.[2]
The chapel was built by Sir David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine (formerly of Ochtertyre),[3] of Tullibardine Castle,[4] as a family chapel and burial site. Members of the Murray family (subsidiaries of the Dukes of Atholl)[4] 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.[4]
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.[2] [4]