Parish Church And Graveyard Longforgan Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of the parish church and graveyard on visit to Longforgan, Perthshire. There has been a church on this site for at least 900 years. It replaced an earlier iron church, or Chapel of Ease. It provided a place of worship conveniently close at hand for people who previously had a long walk to church. The tower is dated 1690 and has an eight sided steeple and unusual clock. The main building by John Paterson is dedicated to St Columba and dates from 1795, the chancel was by Alexander Hutcheson from 1900. The ground floor of the tower, which also contains the entrance, was once used as the village jail. The western tower with spire contains two bells. They date from 1690 and 1889. The larger tenor bell is hung lower down at the same level as the clock so it strikes the bell on the hour. The clock was made in 1795. Several interesting tomb stones are in the graveyard.

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