Spring Road Trip Drive To Parish Church And Graveyard Abercorn West Lothian Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on a single track road visit to the parish church and graveyard on visit to Abercorn in West Lothian. In Outlander season 4, episode 7 Down the Rabbit Hole, there are various flashbacks of Frank and Bree throughout the episode leading up to Franks car crash. Near the end, Bree visits Frank’s grave to pay her respects to him in Boston, America, Abercorn Church was used to portray the graveyard. Abercorn Church is believed to be built on the site of a monasterey. The church dates to the late 11th or 12th century, although it is much altered from its original layout. When first constructed it had an aisleless nave and chancel. The only feature from this early period thought to still exist is a blocked southern door, now located between later burial enclosures. The church was rebuilt in 1579 and three extensions were built for local families. The Philpstoun enclosure, dated 1727, and the Binns aisle of 1618 were built onto the nave. The Duddington aisle of 1603 was joined onto the (now former) chancel, which was converted to the Hopetoun Aisle in 1708. A two storey annex with a retiring room and a burial vault underneath was also built to the north at this time. In 1893 the church was restored by P. MacGregor Chalmers. The old belfry was rebuilt, the west end was Normanised and an aisle was built along the north side of the church.

The distance from Perth, Perthshire, to Abercorn is 40 miles

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