sh of Strageath, and,
in spite of many changes, the minister of the parish still receives
part of his stipend from "the great vicarage teind of the Abbey of
Inchaffray."
In pre-Reformation times there were two other ecclesiastical buildings
in the parish besides the Church of Strageath--Tullibardine College and
Gleneagles Chapel. The College Church of Tullibardine was founded in
1445 by Sir David Murray, who endowed it with a provost and four
prebends, thus making provision not only for the wants of the people,
but for younger sons of the family who might enter the service of the
Church. Within the church, on the west end of the wall, are seen the
arms of the founder and his lady, Dame Isabel Stewart, impaled,[6] the
three stars within the bordure for Murray, and the galley for Stewart
of Lorn, of which family this lady was a daughter. William Murray of
Tullibardine, the son and successor of Sir David, enlarged the College
of Tullibardine, and built that part where his arms and his lady's are
impaled--the three stars within the tressure for Murray, and a cross
ingrailed for Colquhoun, finely cut in stone on the outside of the
wall. The Provostry was suppressed at the Reformation, but in the
early years of the eighteenth century the Session Records frequently
mention "sermon at Tullibardine, the Earle and his lady being there at
present." Lord George Murray, though he favoured the Stewart cause,
evidently encouraged Presbyterian worship, and occasionally showed his
zeal by holding a court "for the fineing and punishing of any such
persons as should be delated and found guilty of drinking themselves
drunk or of profane swearing or Sabbath breaking or any such gross
immoralities." The church, although no longer used for worship, is
still excellently preserved, and is used as a burial-place for the
Strathallan family.
Gleneagles Chapel is a small and unadorned building, standing near the
present mansion-house. The old lairds of Gleneagles are buried within
its walls, and the enclosed space about it has been used as a
graveyard. The Session Records have an entry showing that the chapel
was used as late as March 18, 1705--"Being that the Lady Gleneagles was
brought to bed of a child, and the laird was desirous to have his child
baptized on the Lord's Day, and was unwilling to bring him out so far
as the kirk because of the seasons being yet cold and sometimes stormy.
Therefor desired the minr. to preach at his cha
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