Kinnoull Parish Church

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Kinnoull Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in the Kinnoull area of Perth, Scotland. A "Kinnoull Church" appears in documents when it was granted to Cambuskenneth Abbey 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, which flows a short distance behind the church.

Standing on Dundee Road, today's church was built in 1827 to a design by William Burn. The remains of the earlier 1635 church, which is a scheduled monument, can be seen further south on Dundee Road, adjacent to the Rodney Gardens. 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 Kinnoull family's vault is beneath the floor of the old church, and a monument to George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, is inside it. It shows Hay "dressed in his Lord Chancellor's robes, standing within an ivy-clad Corinthian portico, with a table on which rests the Great Seal of Scotland. Above is an intricate heraldic panel, supported by fruit, unicorns, shields and spearhead finials." The most striking feature of the present church is the west-facing...