Grandtully
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name = Grandtully.jpg
| static_image_caption = Grandtully in winter
| country = Scotland
| official_name = Grandtully
| scots_name = Grantully
| gaelic_name = Gar an Tulaich
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| map_type = Scotland
| coordinates = {{coord|56.656998|-3.776385|display=inline,title}}
| unitary_scotland = Perth and Kinross
| lieutenancy_scotland =
| constituency_westminster = Perth and North Perthshire
| constituency_scottish_parliament = Perthshire North
| post_town = PITLOCHRY
| postcode_district = PH9xx
| postcode_area = PH
| dial_code = 01887
}}
Grandtully (pronounced as "Grantly" and sometimes also spelt "Grantully") is a small village in Perthshire, Scotland.
It is situated close to the River Tay, about {{convert|3|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} from Pitlochry.{{citation
| title = Pitlochry and Crieff
| work = Ordnance Survey Landranger Map
| edition = B2
| date = 2008
| isbn = 978-0-319-22985-9}} It has a population of approximately 750 inhabitants.
Parish Church
Grandtully has a Church of Scotland parish church; it is now part of Grantully, Logierait and Strathtay Parish (within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Dunkeld and Meigle).
St Mary's church
File:St Mary's Church and graveyard at Grandtully - geograph.org.uk - 560473.jpg
File:St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully - Painted Ceiling - geograph.org.uk - 406590.jpg
In Nether Pitcairn, 3.2 km south-west of Grandtully, there is a church built by Alexander Stewart of Grandtully in, or shortly before, 1533.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk/the-best-castles/other-articles/grandtully-castle/|title=Grandtully Castle | The Castles of Scotland, Coventry | Goblinshead|website=www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk}}
It is a low and outwardly unassuming white washed building that contains a wooden barrel vault ceiling with tempera paintings from the early 17th century commissioned by William Stewart around 1636. At the centre, a painted aedicule frames a death-bed and resurrection scene.Michael Pearce, "Beds of Chapel Form in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Inventories: The Worst Sort of Bed", Regional Furniture, 27 (2013), p. 82. The ceiling includes scenes and persons from the bible intermixed with the coats of arms of kings and noblemen, and in addition an abundance of birds, fruits and angels, all depicted in a renaissance style with cartouches and imitated metal work. The paintings were restored in about 1950.{{cite book|last1=Gifford|first1=John|title=The buildings of Scotland: Perth and Kinross|date=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven & London|pages=405–406}}
Grandtully Castle
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Dating to 1560, although an earlier castle stood around {{convert|1|mi|km|round=0.5|abbr=off}} east and dates from 1414; only its foundations remain.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Notable people
- The Drummond-Stewart baronets
- William Stewart of Grandtully, landowner and courtier.
- Sir William Drummond Stewart of Grandtully Castle, and his son,
- George Stewart, recipient of the Victoria Cross
See also
- Ballechin House – a now-demolished supposedly haunted house
- Grandtully rapids
References
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External links
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- [http://www.grandtullyandstrathtay.co.uk Grandtully and Strathtay]
{{Perth & Kinross Towns & Villages}}
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