Collace () is a

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in Perthshire,

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, northeast of Perth, in the

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district. The parish boundary includes the neighbouring villages of Kinrossie and Saucher. The traditional industries of the area are farming, quarrying (sandstone) and weaving, but the latter is now gone.

Dunsinane Hill Dunsinane Hill ( ) is a hill of the Sidlaws near the village of Collace in Perthshire, Scotland. It is mentioned in Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'', in which Macbeth is informed by a supernatural being, "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until ...

, mentioned in the

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play '' Macbeth'', is located near Collace. King's Seat, a low hill east of the village, is marked romantically on older maps as "Macbeth's Castle". Bandirran Stone Circle stands just south of the village.

Buildings

The curren
Collace parish church
building dates from 1812 to 1813 and is on the site of an earlier church dedicated in 1242. Four stained glass windows from 1919 depict scenes from the life of Christ. In the graveyard are important 17th- and 18th-century gravestones, a rare medieval Discoid stone and a conserved mort-house. Next to the church are the remains of a medieval building with a Romanesque arch which was used as the mausoleum for the Nairne family. The chief mansion house is Dunsinnan House, former seat of the extinct Nairne of Dunsinnan

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cy. An example of a 19th-century

morthouse A morthouse or deadhouse was a specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place. These buildings date back to the time when bodysnatchers or resurrectionists fre ...

is located in the churchyard.

Notable residents

William Nairne, Lord Dunsinane Sir William Nairne, Lord Dunsinane, 5th Baronet of Nairne (c. 1731–1811) was a Scottish advocate and judge, and the uncle of Katherine Ogilvie. The title of Lord Dunsinane was taken from Dunsinane Hill, a ruined fort near Collace, Perthshire, ...

(1731-1811) lived in Dunsinnan House *

John MacKay Bernard John MacKay Bernard of Dunsinnan and Buttergask FRSE (1857–19 April 1919) was a Scottish brewer, philanthropist and noted amateur meteorologist. He was President of the Scottish Meteorological Society 1912 to 1915. Life He was born the son o ...

FRSE (1857-1918) brewer, philanthropist and meteorologist lived in Dunsinnan House and is buried in Collace churchyard.

References

Villages in Perth and Kinross {{PerthKinross-geo-stub