Grandtully

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Grandtully in winter
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Grandtully
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OS grid reference NN912531
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Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PITLOCHRY
Postcode district PH9xx
Dialling code 01887
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56°39′25″N3°46′35″W / 56.656998°N 3.776385°W / 56.656998; -3.776385

Grandtully (pronounced as "Grantly" and sometimes also spelt "Grantully") is a small village in Perthshire, Scotland.

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It is situated close to the River Tay, about 3 miles (5 kilometres) from Pitlochry. [1] It has a population of approximately 750 inhabitants.

Parish Church

Grandtully has a Church of Scotland parish church; it is now part of Grantully, Logierait and Strathtay Parish (within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Dunkeld and Meigle).

St Mary's church

St Mary's Church and graveyard at Grandtully St Mary's Church and graveyard at Grandtully - geograph.org.uk - 560473.jpg
St Mary's Church and graveyard at Grandtully
St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully - Painted Ceiling St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully - Painted Ceiling - geograph.org.uk - 406590.jpg
St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully - Painted Ceiling

In Nether Pitcairn, 3.2 km south-west of Grandtully, there is a church built by Alexander Stewart of Grandtully in, or shortly before, 1533. [2]

It is a low and outwardly unassuming white washed building that contains a wooden barrel vault ceiling with tempera paintings from the early 17th century commissioned by William Stewart around 1636. At the centre, a painted aedicule frames a death-bed and resurrection scene. [3] The ceiling includes scenes and persons from the bible intermixed with the coats of arms of kings and noblemen, and in addition an abundance of birds, fruits and angels, all depicted in a renaissance style with cartouches and imitated metal work. The paintings were restored in about 1950. [4]

Grandtully Castle

Dating to 1560, although an earlier castle stood around 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) east and dates from 1414; only its foundations remain.[ citation needed ]

Notable people

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References

  1. "Pitlochry and Crieff", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2008, ISBN   978-0-319-22985-9
  2. "Grandtully Castle | The Castles of Scotland, Coventry | Goblinshead". www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk.
  3. Michael Pearce, "Beds of Chapel Form in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Inventories: The Worst Sort of Bed", Regional Furniture, 27 (2013), p. 82.
  4. Gifford, John (2007). The buildings of Scotland: Perth and Kinross. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. pp. 405–406.