Grandtully (''pronounced as "Grantly" and sometimes also spelt "Grantully"'') is a small village in

Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...

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. It is situated close to the

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, about from Pitlochry. It has a population of approximately 750 inhabitants.

Parish Church

Grandtully has a

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parish church; it is now part of Grantully,

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and Strathtay Parish (within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Dunkeld and Meigle).

St Mary's church

St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully - Painted Ceiling - geograph

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. It is a low and outwardly unassuming white washed building that contains a wooden tunnel vault ceiling with tempera paintings from the early 17th century commissioned by William Stewart. The paintings show 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.

Grandtully Castle

Dating to 1560, although an earlier castle stood around east and dates from 1414; only its foundations remain.

Notable people

*The Drummond-Stewart baronets *Sir

William Drummond Stewart Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 December 1795 – 28 April 1871) was a Scottish adventurer and British military officer. He travelled extensively in the American West for nearly seven years in the 1830s. In 1837 he took along the ...

of Grandtully Castle, and his son, * George Stewart, recipient of the

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