Kinnoull Parish Church is a

Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...

church in the

Kinnoull Kinnoull is a parish in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately half a mile northeast of Perth city centre. Beginning at the level of the River Tay, Kinnoull's terrain continues to rise as it continues southeast, culminating in Kinno ...

area of

Perth, Perth and Kinross Perth (locally: ; gd, Peairt ) is a city in central Scotland, on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire. It had a population of about 47,43 ...

, Scotland. A Kinnoull Church appears in documents when it was granted to

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in 1361. It was rebuilt in 1779 but demolished in 1826 after the completion of a church on the Perth side of the

River Tay The River Tay ( gd, Tatha, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates ...

, which flows a short distance behind the church. Standing on Dundee Road, today's church was built in 1827, but the remains of the earlier 1635 church, which is a

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, can be seen in its northern wall,''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''

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(1901) which is now part of the enclosure of the family burial ground.Kinnoull Old Parish Church
– Canmore Included in the historic designation are the remains of the church, the burial aisle, churchyard and its boundary wall and the gravestones within the churchyard. The church was designed by

William Burn William Burn (20 December 1789 – 15 February 1870) was a Scottish architect. He received major commissions from the age of 20 until his death at 81. He built in many styles and was a pioneer of the Scottish Baronial Revival,often referred t ...

. The Kinnoull family's vault is beneath the church floor, and a monument to

George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, (1570 – 16 December 1634) was a Scottish nobleman and political official. Biography He was the second son of Peter Hay of Megginch and Margaret, daughter of Patrick Ogilvy of Inchmartin. No date is recorde ...

, is inside the church. It shows Hay "dressed in his

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's robes, standing within an ivy-clad Corinthian portico, with a table on which rests the

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. Above is an intricate heraldic panel, supported by fruit, unicorns, shields and spearhead

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s." The church's electric organ was unveiled by Dr Albert Lister Peace on 23 April 1896. It was a gift of Mrs Jasmine F. Fuller, of Rosebank. The organ is the work of the Hope–Jones Organ Company of

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. The organ cases were designed by Perth architect David Smart.

Notable burials

Effie Gray Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (''née'' Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously been married to the art critic John Ruskin, ...

, wife of the critic

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, is buried in the churchyard. Gray's father donated the Millais window, the West window, to the Church in 1870. It is based on designs drawn by

John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest ...

, whom Gray left Ruskin for"The Millais window" - '' The Courier'', 22 April 2020. Gray's 20-year-old son, George, is also buried in the kirkyard

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File:Kinnoull Parish Church, Perth - geograph.org.uk - 2670980.jpg, The southeastern corner File:Kinnoull aisle-geograph-1939952.jpg, The medieval family graveyard File:Euphemia Millais Gray.jpg, Grave marker of Effie Gray, which is shared with her son, George

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* Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Perth and Kinross 19th-century Church of Scotland church buildings Churches completed in 1827 Churches in Perth, Scotland Listed churches in Scotland Listed buildings in Perth, Scotland {{Scotland-church-stub

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