Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Watch House Parish Churchyard Clunie Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel photography of the Watch House in the Parish Churchyard on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland. During this era in Scotland, body snatching was rampant. Watch houses were built in churchyards to allow families or hired guards to keep watch over fresh graves and protect them from grave robbers seeking medical specimens. Fragments of the original medieval church have been rebuilt into a small structure that probably served as a watch house to the south of the present church.


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Tour Scotland Video Clunie Church Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Clunie Church and burial ground on ancestry, genealogy history visit and small group trip to Perthshire, Scotland. Clunie Parish Church replaced the existing church in 1840, and was built on the site of an earlier church. The present church stands alone on rising ground, surrounded by its graveyard. It is built in stone and has a slate roof. It is in full ecclesiastical use and in good condition. The church has a stone tower that contains a bell, cast in 1801 and over 25 inches wide. It was made by Thomas Mears of London, England, at the Whitechapel Foundry.



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