Autumn Road Trip Drive To Parish Church Bendochy Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish music, on a single track road on ancestry visit to the Parish Church and cemetery at Bendochy, Perthshire. Bendochy Parish Church is one of the oldest ecclesiastic sites in Scotland, the walls of the present Church being seven hundred years old. Bendochy had already been a religious site for several centuries when The Cistercian Abbey was founded two miles away in Coupar Angus. When the original Bendochy Church was taken over as the Parish Church by the Cistercian Monks, it would have been a simple rectangular white washed stone building with plain rectangular windows and an earth floor. In 1885 there were extensive alterations and repairs which lasted six months. The original walls were retained, transepts added to the East end, a porch to the entrance and a vestry to the rear. A new belfry was built on the West end. The present belfry and bell, with its outside rope, is still in use, and is rung, by hand, every Sunday as a call to worship.

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