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1122 DUNKELD.
game dealers' licences &c. The town is of
great antiquity and was the capital of
ancient Caledonia. The see of Dunkeld may
be said to have taken its rise from the
Culdce monastery, founded here in or
previous to the Oth century by monks from
Iona, who also translated hither the relics of
St. Columba, and preserved them here until
their final transmission to Ireland : there
are records of bishops from A.D. 840, and
they then held precedence over all others in
Scotland, a privilege continued to the pre-
lates nf Dunkeld until the creation of the
Archbishopric of St. Andrews in 1470. In
1127, King David I. reconstituted the abbey
as a house of canons regular, and appointed
Gregory, then abbot, as bishop of Dunkeld,
while retaining at the same time Mb monas-
tic office; the abbey church of St. Columba
naturally became the cathedral, and though
now for the most part ruinous, it is yet a
Very stately structure, and its attractiveness
is much enhanced by the beauty of its situ-
ation amid a grove of trees within the
private demesne of the Duke of Atholl, and
close to the river Tay: it consists of a long
aiBleless choir of four bays, with a vaulted
chapter house of two bays on the north side,
nave of seven bays with aisles and south
porch, a tall octagonal stair turret on the
south side of the west doorway, and a north-
west tower completed in 1501, 25 feet square
and 0G feet in height, with an open quatre-
foiled parapet, angle turret and dwarf pin-
nacles; the total length, measured exter-
pnlly, is 240 feet, the width of the choir
being 30 feet and of the nave and aisles 67
feet: the earliest existing portion of the
fabric is the south wall of the choir, c.
1220-50 ; the rest of the choir is of later date
and was the work of Bishop Sinclair in the
first half of the 14th century; the chapter
house, begun in 1457, was finished in 1460,
and has an upper chamber or muniment
room; in 1380 the church was burnt by the
English, and probably on account of the
damage thus caused, the nave was rebuilt as
it now stands, during the ijeriod 1436-47 ;
the arcades have massive but short circular
piers with plain caps, carrying boldly
molded arcbes; the triforium openings con-
sist in each case of a single semi-circular
arch divided into two pointed arches ; the
clerestory is lighted by simply pointed win-
dows with cusped tracery, hut their interior
splay is rudely plain; the groat west
window,, singularly placed off the centre
both of the gable and the entrance, still
retains some fragments of Its once elaborate
traceried work; in the aisles the tracery of
Borne of the windows is still perfect; the
western doorway has its outer nrch carried
on square piers splayed at the base, and Iiqh
within six orders of shafts and mouldings;
on either sicje, of it is a blind arch slightly
recessed: in 1509 the cathedral again suf-
fered great damage, the rood screen, stalls
and many monuments being destroyed ;
after this the services were held .only
in the choir, the nave being dismantled and
allowed to become ruinous: in 1680, after
the battle of Killiecrankie, the victorious
Highlanders attacked Dunkeld. find the
cathedral, into which the troops of William
III. had thrown themselves, was severely
injured by fir o and in other ways; but the
choir was repaired by the Murrays in 1691
and again in 1702 by the Government at a
cost of £300, and was rebuilt in 1820 by the
Duke of Atholl,, at a cost of £6,000: the
chapter house, now serving only as a vesti-
bule to the ducal pew, contains a mural
monument of the 17th century, and on the
south. Bdd.fi. another in the Renaissance style
displaying heraldically oil the principal
alliances of the Stewnrt-Murrays, dukes of
Atholl, and on the east side is a statue of
John, 4 th Duke K.T., F.R.S. who died 20
Sept. 1830, and is buried here; in the south-
east angle of the choir is the fine tomb with
recumbent effigy of Alexander, Earl of
Buchan, ' 4th son of King Robert IT. and
commonly known from his rapacious charac-
ter as " tlie wolf of Badenoch." d. 24 July,
1304; beside it lies the headless effigy of
Bishop Sinclair (1309-24), and here also
stands part of a Celtic cross; on the oppo-
site side are Btairs leading to a gallery
which extends along that side, and there are
Bedilia on both sides, but the east end of the
choir is now partitioned off and merely
serves as a Vestibule to the remaining part :
the south aisle of the nave, originally
vaulted, contains the tomb with recumbent
effigy of Bishop de Cardeny (1407-36); the
front of the. tomb is. ornamented with
figures of o,ngels under canopies nnd holding
•hicids, and over it is a low but much en-
riched recessed arch with. elaborately carved
crockets and- flnial ; there is a piscina at the
PERTHSHIRE.
east end of this wall ; the area of. the nave
has long been used as a cemetery, and the
base of the tower, which is vaulted, is used
as a tool house. There is also a United
Free church, a substantial edifice, erected
in 1874, at a cost of upwards of £2,000,
on the Bite of the old one, with tower ana
spire : the interior is ornamented by a
stained glass window in memory of the
Karl of Dalhousie, the whole of the fund.-
being raised by public subscription.
James VI. made a grant for erecting a
grammar school, called the It oval School
of Dunkeld, which still exists. The City
Hall, in Atholl street, is a stone building
furnished with a gallery, and capable of
holding 350 persons ; the funds were raised
by the assistance of the present Duke of
Atholl, the gentry in the neighbourhood
and the inhabitants. The weekly market
is held on Saturday, and the fairs on the
14th of February and the 5th of April;
should any of these fall on Saturday, Sun-
day or Mondaj', the fairB take place on
the following Tuesday; another is held on
the Becond Tuesday in November. The
manufacture of linen goods was formerly
the staple trade of Dunkeld, but has now
become extinct. There are branches of two
banking establishments settled here, namely,
the Bank of Scotland and the Union Bank
of Scotland Limited. Excellent accommo-
dation is furnished by two very extensive
and superior hotels, the Duke of Atholl's
Arms and the Royal Hotel. A fountain was
erected in I860 as a mark of respect and
esteem to George Augustus Frederick John,
sixth Duke of Atholl, who died in 1SC4.
Dunkeld is the head quarters of the Scot-
tish Horse Imperial Yeomanry. Dunkeld
House is a seat of the noble family of
Stewart-Murray, Dukes of Atholl, the gar-
dens and extensive pleasure grounds be-
longing to which present many attractive
features, including Ossian's Hall, the
Rumbling Bridge and several falls of the
river Bran ; there arc also two very fine
trees called " the mother larches," being
the first grown in Britain ; they were
planted in 1737 and are 100 feet high, one
of them measuring 15 feet in circumference
at three feet from the ground. His Grace
the Duke of Atholl K.T. is the principal
landowner. The area of the civil parish oi
Dunkeld and Dowally is 15,203 acres; rab-
ble value, £7,651; population in 1801,
613, and in 1901, 1,201 in the civil and 624
in the ecclesiastical parish, and .586 in the
villat-'e.
Post, T., M. O., T. M. O., E. D. & P. P.,
S, B. & A. &' I. O. Bridge street; Ken-
neth M'Donald, postmaster. Deliveries,
7.30 a.m., 11 a.m. (parcels only) &' 6.15
p.m. ; dispatches, 6 &. 0.30 a.m. & 2.25 &
5.30 p.m. (during July to October at 4.45
p.m.); Sundays, 8.50 a.m. & 2.5 p. m
PARISH COUNCIL.
Chairman. Charles McLaren
Clerk, William Cuthbert
IMPERIAL .YEOMANRY.
Scottish Horse Head Quarters, Marquis of
Tullibardine M.V.O.. D.S.O. lieut.-col.
commanding; Major "Walter Thomas Jas.
Bocymsoure-Steunrfl Fothringham, second
in command; Capt. L. O. Graeme, ad-
jutant; "Veterinary Cnpt. R. G. Ander-
son, veterinary officer ; Surg. -Lieut. J.
A. Taylor, medical officer; Millward
Smith, regimental sergeant-major
Scottish Horse (Imperial Yeomanry) B
Squadron, Major J. R. Beech C.M.G.,
D.S.O. commanding; Capt. W. Loring,
second in command; Squad. -Sergt.-Maj.
C. Haven, drill instructor
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages.
Inspector of Poor & Collector of Rates,
William Cuthbert
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS &c.
County Constabulary, George Burgess, con-
stable
Foresters Ancient Order of, Court, Hope
of Dunkeld. Willinm Cuthbert, sec
Freemasons' Lodge (St. John's, No. 14),
Marquis of Tullibardine R.W.M. ; Ken-
neth M'Donald, sec. Duke of Atholl Arm?
hotel
Freemasons' Lodge (Operative, No. 152),
Andrew Jack R.W.M. ; Sergt. -Major Jn.
King, sec. Royal hotel
Reading Room <fc Library, High street,
William Cuthbert & Donald Murray, sees. ;
John McRoBtie, president
Stamp & Tax Office, Bridge street, Thomas
Jack, sub-distributor
Established Church, Rev. Thomas R. Ruther-
ford M.A
[slater's
United Free. Church, Rev. John W.Hamiltom
Roman .Catholic, Berved from Ballechin,.
Logierait
SCHOOL BOARD.
Chairmnn, Jarnes Forbes M.V.Q., J.P
Clerk, Robert M'Gillewle
Schools : —
High street, Dunkeld (Royal Grammar
School), George Ritchie Cro'.l M.A. ;
(elementary department), Geo. Mutch ;
Miss Cornelia A. Ferguson, mistress
Dowally, Miss Mary Chalmers, mistress
Subscription School, Butterstone, Miss Jane
Reid, mistress
Omnibuses from the Duke of Atholl Anns.
hotel & Royal hotel attend tfoe anrival.
of all trains
COACH.
To Braemar, a coach from the Royal hotel;.
Dunkeld (via Blairgowrie & Spittal of'
Glenshee), daily, in July, August & Sep-
tember
DOWALLY is a large parish, united with*
that of Dunkeld, 1 mile south from Guay-
Btation ^ which is an the parish) on the Perth>
and Inverness section of the Highland',
railway, and abuut 5 miles north from
Dunkeld. The present church was builtr
in 1818, nearly on the site of that erecteaV'
by Bishop Brown. A number of old stone&
have been made use of in constructing the'
new building, amongst which is one bearing:
the arms of Bishop Brown, the original
founder, a tombstone to the memory of one-
of the Dalguise family, and a stone in tha-
shape of a bell. â–  The Duke of Atholl K.T.
is the landowner.
Butterstone is a small village, about 4#
miles north-west from Dunkeld, formerly^
in the parish of Caputh, but has beem
transferred to Dunkeld.
Kindallachan is a Bmall village in this*
parish.
Letters through Ballinluig R.S.O
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages?
Dowally, James Douglas, Guay
Established Church, vacant
Railway Station, Guay, Thomas Campbell^
station master
Dunkeld.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Atholl Duke of K.T. (iord-lieut. of Perth-
shire), Dunkeld house; & 84 Eaton place-
5 W & Carlton, Guards' & Marlborough,
clubs S W "& Turf & Bachelors' clubs W„
London
Ballintine Miss Isabella, Dean's cross
Cox William H
Gloag William Murray, Craigintaggart
Hamilton Rev. John W. United Free Manse/
Jack Thomas J.P. Bridge street
McDonald D. Mitchell, Lagmhor
M'Gillewie Robert, Union Bank, Bridge st
Macnaughton Jn. Bank of Scotland, High b?
Nason Mrs. St. Jerome
Robertson Mrs. Butterglen
Ross Miss, East ferry
Rutherford Rev. Thomas R., M.A. (Estab-
lished), The Manse
Taylor James Anderson M.A., M.B., CM..
Tay terrace
COMMERCIAL.
Ear'y closing day, Thursday, 2 p.m.
Anderson John, boot maker, High street
Anderson William B. bookseller & fancy-
goods dealer, Atholl street
Bank of Scotland (branch) (John Mac-
naughton, agent), High street; draw on*
London office, 10 Bishopsgate st. within
E C; Coutts & Co. W c & Bank of Eng-
land E C. London
Birnam & Dunkeld Bowling Club (Robert
Parker, see. & treasurer)
Bruce Daniel, market gardener, Atholl st
Buchanan Thomas, plumber. Cathedral Bfc
6 Bridge street
Cameron William, Joiner & cabinet
maker. High street & Cathedral street
Campbell Thomas, hair dresser, Atholl st
Campbell William, plasterer, Atholl street
City Hall (Allan Paul, sec. & treasurer),
Atholl street
Clyde John & Sons, cabinet mas.Atholl st
Clyde John, cabinet maker. High road
Cram Margt. (Mrs.), fruiterer &c. Atholl sb
Curling Club (Charles M'Laren, sec)
Cuthbert William, aerated water manufac-
turer, bottled beer merchant, clerk to
â–  Parish Council, registrar of births, deaths
& marriages, inspector of poor & collector
of rates, Springwells
Del-Pippo Louis, confectioner, Atholl Gt
Doig Thomas *fe William, High street
Doig George, dairyman, High street
Dow Donald, spirit dealer. High street
Duff Daniel, boot maker, Atholl street