Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of a short road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on a single track road with snow to St Adamnan's Scottish Episcopal Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history to Kilmaveonaig by Blair Atholl in the Highlands of Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. This Scottish chapel was rebuilt in 1794 by John Stewart on the site of the old parish church of Kilmaveonaig built in 1591. Enlarged 1899 by the addition of the battlemented Gothic porch. Lorimer reredos added 1912. Old bell 1629, from Little Dunkeld church. Those buried in the Lude Vault at Kilmaveonaig Church include Agnes Gordon the wife of Alexander Robertson of Inchmagranoch in 1634 and of her son Alexander of Lude in 1639, all subsequent members of the family down to and including Colonel James A. Robertson were buried at Kilmaveonaig. Kilmaveonaig is one of the very few old churches still in the procession of the Scottish Episcopal Church. St Adamnan’s Church is dedicated to the blessed Eonan or Saint Adamnan, the 7th century Abbot of Iona and biographer of Saint Columba and was first mentioned in 1275. After John Knox's sermon against idolatry in St John's Kirk Perth in 1559 the church was damaged and it wasn’t until 1591 that it was rebuilt by the local Robertson family of Lude. With the disestablishment of episcopacy in 1689, the church fell into disrepair but was still able to be used by the Reverend Duncan Stewart to read the Jacobite proclamation in 1715. Following the failure of the second Jacobite rising in 1746, Episcopalian churches were damaged by government troops and stricter rules reduced the number of people attending a service to four. Just before Christmas in 1756, the 70 year old Reverend Walter Stewart was sentenced to six months in the Perth Tollbooth Prison for holding divine service in his house; his six companions were fined the then enormous sum of £5 each. After Scottish bishops promised to pray for King George III in 1792, the penal statutes were repealed allowing freedom of worship and the church was rebuilt in 1794. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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