Tour Scotland travel video of a wee walk around the Scottish parish church in Tibbermore on ancestry, Outlander, visit to Perthshire. Located a few miles east of Perth, Tibbermore Parish Church appeared in season 1 of Outlander in episode 11, “ The Devil’s Mark ”. It played the part of the court used in the witch trial. Viewers will no doubt remember Claire and Geillis sitting in the dock, accused of witchcraft. Despite the best efforts of Ned Gowan, Geillis is sent from here to be burned, as Jamie rides off with Claire. Tibbermore parish church dates from 1632, when the the local lairds substantially rebuilt the structure on the medieval east to west alignment, a church dedicated to St Mary existed here during the late middle ages. In 1789 James Stobie, architect and surveyor, simplified the building plan by removing an aisle at the east end and stretching the church 10 feet eastwards. Other changes in 1789 included making the south windows symmetrical and a new door and porch on the west gable. New galleries at each end gave extra seating, and the pews were rearranged to face the pulpit, which now occupied the traditional Scottish presbyterian position between the central windows. The north aisle of 1810 transformed the church into a late T-plan, capable of seating 600. It was built privately to accommodate the cloth printing workers in the Ruthven Printfield Company, which had set up nearby in 1792. Its raked stone flooring and simple wooden pews are distinctive and unusual survivors of that time. In 1874 the present pulpit and the horseshoe seating in a muscular style with recessed Celtic crosses were installed. The seats in the galleries and the aisle were left alone. The stencilled decoration around the pulpit possibly dates from this period also, a rare survival in Scottish country parish church. In addition to the marble First World War I memorial, stained glass designed by Oscar Paterson commemorating women who served in the war was inserted in the two central windows in 1920. The earliest monument in the church is a large stone tablet set into the aisle wall, erected in 1631 by Sir James Murray of Tibbermore to his family.
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