Appeal launch for historic Kirk

Appeal launched to save St John’s Kirk of Perth 900-year-old Kirk where John Knox sparked the reformation is in crisis £4 million restoration bill looms for Perth’s most historic building The Kirk of Kings threatened by soaring costs A £4 million appeal is being launched to save Perth’s oldest and key historic building. St John’s Kirk has dominated the Fair … Read More

Spire repairs are a top priority for the Kirk

For centuries it has dominated the city of Perth skyline. But now the historic lead-clad spire of St John’s Kirk is under threat from the elements with a repair bill spiralling to hundreds of thousands of pounds. Expert surveys of the unique focal feature of Perth’s oldest standing building carried out in 2019 identified water entering through failing lead-work, causing … Read More

Perth music bells

Dundee Courier – Friday 25 November 1881 As will be remembered, it was announced in these columns considerable time age that ex-Lord Provost Graham had, with characteristic generosity, offered replace the defective mechanism of the half-hour chimes in the Steeple of St John’s Church by machinery of the most improved and modern type. The Town Council having granted the requisite authority for the execution of the work, Messrs Gillet & … Read More