Tour Scotland Travel Video Early Autumn Drive On Narrow Scottish Road To Parish Church Aberdalgie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of an early Autumn road trip drive on a narrow Scottish road on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Aberdalgie, Strathearn, Perthshire. The earliest patrons of Aberdalgie were the Oliphants. Aberdalgie was united with the parish of Dupplin in 1618. The Oliphants were succeeded as patrons in 1625 by the Kinnoull family. The present church was erected by the Earl of Kinnoull in 1773. In more recent times the church has benefitted from the interest of the Dewar family who became lairds of Dupplin in 1911. Under the patronage of John Dewar, first Baron Forteviot of Dupplin, the prominent Scottish architect, Sir Robert Lorimer, remodelled the interior in 1929. Aberdalgie is the area where the Medieval heads of Clan Oliphant are buried. Prominent among them is Sir William Oliphant, the resolute Governor of Stirling Castle when in 1304 it held out longer than any other against Edward I of England, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Also buried here are Sir William's son, Sir Walter Oliphant, and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Robert the Bruce.

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