Tullibardine Chapel Explained

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]

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  1. https://canmore.org.uk/site/26079/tullibardine-chapel Tullibardine Chapel
  2. http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM90308 Tullibardine Chapel, chapel 100m W of West Mains of Tullibardine
  3. The Baronage of Scotland, Sir Robert Douglas (1798), p. 145
  4. https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst6139.html Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland
  5. The Peerage of England, Volume 7, Arthur Collins (1779), p. 86
  6. Richard Fawcett, Scottish Architecture: From the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation, 1371-1560 (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 219-221.