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Interesting news · 5 November 2025
Rare 17th‑Century Painted Ceiling at Perthshire Church Receives Conservation Touch‑Up
Perthshire · from historicenvironment.scot
Photograph · historicenvironment.scot
At St Mary’s Church, Grandtully in Perthshire, conservators from Historic Environment Scotland have undertaken delicate conservation work on a celebrated painted ceiling dating from the early 1600s. The ceiling features roundels, arches, coats of arms, saints and proverbs in a Renaissance style. The recent intervention involved securing flaking paint and cleaning surface debris to arrest deterioration caused by timber movement and environmental changes. This rare decorative scheme is one of only two of its kind in Scotland.
An ivy-clad distillery of 1798 on the edge of Pitlochry, making the malt at the heart of Bell's, with tours, tastings and a bar made from an old copper mash tun.
A colourful cafe at the Cairn O'Mohr winery near Errol, opened in 2021, cooking Perthshire and Dundee produce with a street-food twist and fruit wines to match.
Barefoot dancing in the grass, festoon lit lawns, firepits for toasting marshmallows, stargazing windows. Weddings at Guardswell are relaxed and a lot of fun.
After decades of steep decline, Scotland’s capercaillie, one of Britain’s most endangered birds, is showing early signs of recovery in the Caledonian pine forests.
