Old Photographs Of Innerpeffray Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Innerpeffray, a hamlet in Perthshire, 4 miles south east of Crieff. It is located on a raised promontory among beech woodland above the River Earn. A fording point across the river can still be used, on what is the line of a Roman Road. The settlement mainly consists of an early complete and very important group of educational and religious buildings, all founded, built or rebuilt by the Drummond family of Strathearn. Innerpeffray Collegiate Church is an early 16th-century church. John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond is buried here. Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray, who built the chapel, is buried here, as well.The famous Innerpeffray Library, the oldest surviving public library in Scotland, and still open to the public. There are about three thousand volumes shelved in a fine, well lit room on the upper floor, many of great age and value, one of the most interesting being the great Marquis of Montrose's personal pocket Bible, in French, bearing his autograph. The library was founded in 1691 by David Drummond, 3rd Lord Madderty, Montrose's brother-in-law, who also endowed the school in an adjoining building. Many of the books were added, about sixty years later by Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of Canterbury, who had inherited Innerpeffray and other great estates, and who erected the present library building. Innerpeffray Castle is a ruined fortalice in private ownership. It was built by James Drummond, 1st Baron Maderty, on the corner of a Roman marching camp.

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