Muthill Tower - Perth & Kinross, Scotland
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N 56° 19.943 W 003° 49.964
30V E 448511 N 6243386
12th century bell tower of Muthill Old Church, originally built as a freestanding structure, and now the only intact part of the church it was eventually incorporated into.
Waymark Code: WM1BBZG
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/15/2025
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This Romanesque bell tower was built as a freestanding structure in the Perthshire village of Muthill in the mid 1100s, probably for protection rather than religious purposes. It is thought it was built by the same masons as Dunblane Cathedral, as there are architectural similarities.
The tower was incorporated into the church that was built in the 1400s with added outer walls, arcades, and chancel arch all to the east. Further additions were added after the reformation around 1560 to incorporate Protestant worship.
By the 1820s the church was dismantled, mostly for stonework into the building of the new parish church nearby to the east, but the tower remained intact and is the only part of the old church that remains in its original state.
The tower is situated to the west of the churchyard and is of a similar style to many built in central Scotland, with a crowstepped roof and east-west facing gables. The only windows are high up and slit-like.