Tour Scotland Travel Video Old Kirk And Cemetery Weem Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the old Kirk and cemetery in Weem on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Tradition has it that a church was founded at Weem by a monk from the first monastery at Melrose called Cuthbert at some time in the years after AD 650. It is said he lived in a cave in nearby Chapel Rock while on a mission to convert the Picts, and the church was established soon afterwards. Cuthbert later became intimately involved in the story of Christianity on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and is now better known as Saint Cuthbert. The first record of a church in Weem can be dated back as far as 1235,.In 1609 the church was significantly altered by Sir Alexander Menzies to bring it more into line with post-Reformation forms of Protestant worship.Further modifications were made in the 1700s, and in 1839 the church was made redundant by the building of a replacement in the form of the nearby parish church. The Old Kirk was presented to the then Chief of the Clan Menzies " in all time coming " for use as a family mausoleum.

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