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Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Kenmore. Show all posts
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Parish Church in Kenmore by Loch Tay, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. Kenmore Church History. Shot these photographs today from the South bank of Loch Tay.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Parish Church in Kenmore by Loch Tay, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland.
Tour Scotland video of the exterior of Parish Church in Kenmore by Loch Tay, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland.
Tour Scotland video of the interior of Parish Church in Kenmore by Loch Tay, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland.
Old photograph of Taymouth Castle, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle largely dates from the 19th century, though Taymouth Castle stands on the site of the ancient Balloch Castle which was built in 1550 for Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy, descendent of Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell. Sir Colin's son, Sir Duncan Campbell, was made a baronet in 1625. King James VI visited the castle in August 1582. Sir Duncan Campbell's descendent John Campbell was created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in 1681. In 1720 the 2nd Earl commissioned William Adam to remodel the house and lay out extensive formal gardens. The 2nd Earl's son oversaw further changes in the 1750s, and by the 1780s the formal gardens had been replaced with a picturesque landscape. The present castle was built to the designs of the brothers James and Archibald Elliot.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Tour Scotland photograph of the War Memorial in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.
“ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF KENMORE PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR ”
KENMORE
JOHN CRICHTON, Lieutenant, BLACK WATCH
JOHN MACKIE, Private, BLACK WATCH,
HAROLD TOWNER, Private, BLACK WATCH
FRED. GLOVER, Private, LONDON REGIMENT
ARTHUR PINKNEY, Stoker, ROYAL NAVY
JAMES MCLAREN, Private, BLACK WATCH
ANDREW INKSTER, Private, BLACK WATCH
STYX
ALEX. MCINNES, Private, Gordon Highlanders
JOHN MCDONALD, Private, LONDON SCOTTISH
ALEX. MCLAREN, Private, BLACK WATCH
DONALD GILLIES, Private, BLACK WATCH
ACHARN
DUNCAN MCPHERSON, Private, CANADIANS
JOHN MCLAREN, Private, Cameron Highlanders
JAMES CAMPBELL, Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers
LACHLAN MCOWAN, Private, SCOTS GUARDS
THOMAS MCRAE, Corporal, BLACK WATCH
ARDTAINAIG
JOHN CAMPBEL, Private, SCOTTISH RIFLES
MORENISH
DONALD P. STEWART, Private, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
ALEX. STEWART, Royal Naval Division
LAWERS
JAMES MCNAB, Trooper, SCOTTISH HORSE
WILLIAM HENDRY, Private, BLACK WATCH
PETER MCGREGOR, Private, BLACK WATCH
DUNCAN MCGREGOR, Private, BLACK WATCH
FEARNAN
DUNCAN MATHIESON, Corporal, Highland Light Infantry
PETER MATHIESON, Private, BLACK WATCH
HUGH COWAN, Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers
JOHN FRASER, Driver. Royal Field Artillery
JAMES DEWAR, Private, SCOTS GUARDS
DUNCAN MCPHAIL, Private, SCOTS GUARDS
DUNCAN FRASER, Private, SCOTS GUARDS
MALCOLM FRASER, Private, SCOTS GREYS
The Distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Kenmore is 78 miles.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the church in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. Built in 1760 by architect E. William Baker, it partly incorporates the walls of the earlier 1669 Kirk. It was then remodelled in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. Its tower was heightened drawing greater attention to it. It must have been a difficult time for the people of Kenmore during the upheaval of the Reformation. Their Church had been served for over a hundred years by “Vicars” saying mass in Latin. Although few could have understood the service it was for them the only form they knew. Then came the great change. William Ramsay was put “ in possession of the Manse and gleib land occupied in times past by the Vicars ”, but stayed only a short time. He was followed bya Reader, Duncan Maclagan. After the Reformation,the Church did not have sufficient ministers for all the parishes in the land and there was a particular shortage of ministers able to speak in the Gaelic tongue. So we find in 1574 that one Duncan Macaulay became minister not only of Kenmore but of Fortingall, Dull, Weem, Foss and Grantully as well. From all accounts he worked very hard to give his parishioners a sound knowledge of the scripture, and it was during his incumbency that the new Church was built on the site of the present building, after the laird had led a petition of the parishioners to have a new Church at Kenmore.
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October 12th photograph of Kenmore Bridge, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. Kenmore Bridge is located where Loch Tay drains into the River Tay. The bridge dates from 1774.
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