Tullibardine Chapel

Tullibardine Chapel stands alone in a neat graveyard among pines on farmland two miles north-west of Auchterarder, one of the most complete private chapels surviving from later medieval Scotland and one of the few churches to come through the Reformation largely unaltered. It was built by Sir David Murray of Tullibardine and his wife Margaret Colquhoun near their castle, now vanished, where priests prayed for the souls of the Murray dead. About 1500 their grandson Sir Andrew Murray added a squat bell tower and the transepts, giving the cross plan seen today. Inside are the late medieval timber roof, statue niches, Murray coats of arms and masons' marks. Lord George Murray, Bonnie Prince Charlie's general, buried his infant daughter here in 1740 and would have been buried here himself had he not gone into exile after Culloden, and the Earls of Perth still have the right of burial in the vault below the chancel. It opens daily from April to September; there is no bus or coach access.