Innerpeffray is a hamlet 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, ...

, Scotland, southeast of Crieff. It is located on a raised promontory among beech woodland above the

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. A fording point across the river can still be used, on what is the line of a Roman Road. The settlement mainly consists of an early complete and very important group of educational and religious buildings, all founded, built or rebuilt by the Drummond family of Strathearn.

Collegiate Chapel of St Mary

Innerpeffray Collegiate Church is an early-16th-century church. It is a

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John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond (died 1519), was a Scottish statesman. Drummond, ninth successive knight of his family, was the eldest son of Sir Malcolm Drummond of Cargill and Stobhall, Perthshire, by his marriage with Mariota, eldest daughter ...

is buried here. Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray (who built this chapel) is buried here, as well.

Innerpeffray Library

Innerpeffray Library Innerpeffray Library was the first lending library in Scotland. It is located in the hamlet of Innerpeffray, by the River Earn in Perth and Kinross, southeast of Crieff. The library building is Category A listed. St Mary's Chapel Innerpeffray ...

is a historic

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and was the first lending library in

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. The current library building was completed in 1762 and is Category A listed.

Innerpeffray Castle

The land was controlled by

Inchaffray Abbey Inchaffray Abbey was situated by the village of Madderty, midway between Perth and Crieff in Strathearn, Scotland. The only traces now visible are an earth mound and some walls on rising ground which once (before drainage) formed an island where ...

until the Reformation when it was confiscated by the crown and sold to the Drummond family. The current ruinous 17th century L-plan tower house , south of the village, was built by James Drummond, 1st Baron Maderty, on the corner of a former Roman marching camp. The form and design is typical of the period in Scotland with crowstepped gables. The structure contains gunloops and windows. A vaulted basement lies under the structure. Drummond Castle to the southwest of Crieff is the current Drummond family seat. The castle and the site of the Roman camp are both protected as scheduled monuments.

Innerpeffray railway station

Innerpeffray railway station to the north, now disused, served the hamlets of Innerpeffray and Millhills.

Notable people

* James Drummond, 1st Baron Maderty *

Maol Choluim de Innerpeffray Maol Choluim de Innerpeffray was a 14th-century bishop-elect of Dunkeld. He was a canon from Strathearn. After the death of bishop William Sinclair, the canons of Dunkeld held an election, which was held late in the year 1337 or early 1338. The ...

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