Spring Parish Church Kilspindie Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of the Parish Church and cemetery on visit to Kilspindie, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire. Kilspindie is a village situated on the Kilspindie burn, approximately thred miles north west of Errol, twelve miles west of Dundee centre and six miles east of Perth. There are no visible remains of the medieval parish church of Kilspindie. The present church was built in the 19th Century. In the burial ground there are at least two 17th century gravestones, and also a number of 18th century date. The first church of Kilspindie is on record in 1395. The village previously housed the Kilspindie Castle which was demolished before 1670. In 1114, the sixth century Culdee Cell at Scone was superseded by a monastery, the first abbey to be built in Scotland. The charter of this foundation gives over to the monks “ A common interest in the River Tay, so that they may fish it. ” Kilspindie parish thus appears early within the sphere of influence of the Abbey of Scone. In the reign of King Alexander II, born 1214, died 1249, there is mention in the Liber de Scon of one “ Malcolmus abbe de Kynspinedin, ” and the parish church of “ Kilspinedy ” is one of the churches of the Abbey of Scone, in a Bull of Pope Benedict, in the reign of King Robert III. Kilspindie, in its central position, saw a considerable amount of coming and going between the Abbeys at Scone, Coupar Angus, Lindores in Fife, and Abernethy. It is said that a certain priest from Lindores would land from his boat in the River Tay, tie his boat to a tree which then stood near the hairpin bend of the modern road and walk up to the Chapel by what is traditionally known as “ The Minister’s Brae ”. More credible is the belief that the Cupar Abbey monks had a right of way over the top of the hill near the Swirlhead, via Ladywell, Gasconhall, Kilspindie Den and thence by the Burn Alley to Port Allen. This bridle path is said to have been used by the monks to carry their grain and produce to be ground at the mill or shipped for abroad.

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