Although things might be a little different on your visit, you can still enjoy exploring Tullibardine Chapel.
Find out more about this historic place below.
Journey inside
Tullibardine Chapel is a monument to the piety of the Murray family. It was built by Sir David Murray of Tullibardine, ancestor of the earls of Atholl, and his lady, Margaret Colquhoun, near their residence of Tullibardine Castle. It was originally probably a plain, rectangular church.
Their grandson Sir Andrew Murray enlarged the chapel in about 1500, adding a squat bell tower and transepts to the north and south, giving the church a cross-shaped layout. It stands almost unchanged since these extensions and is one of the few medieval churches to have survived the Reformation unaltered.
Its setting, among a neat graveyard in a wooded area, is similar to how it appears in a map in the 1590s. Medieval features of the church include the timber roof, niches for statues and aumbries (albeit minus their contents), coats of arms of the Murray family, masons’ marks – the signatures of the masons who worked on the chapel.