So we stopped and I went for a wander with my camera. It was worth stopping to see.
Muthill is 3 miles south of Crieff.
The village contains a number of listed buildings including the church. The Tower, still standing and still roofed dates back to the 1100s.
The Tower was built by the Culdees, a group of monks.
The site occupied by the Old Parish Church may have been used for Christian worship for much longer, but the first documentary evidence of settlement here was when a group of Culdees established a religious community in the 1170s. They built the tower, possibly on the foundations of an earlier structure, and it seems likely that they also built a church. No evidence of an earlier tower, or of the supposed Culdee church (or any predecessor) has been uncovered, perhaps because of the later arrival on the site of much of the rest of what we now know as Muthill Old Church.
It would appear that much of the village was destroyed by Jacobite troops on their retreat to Culloden during the 1745 rebellion.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/muthill/oldchurch/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muthill
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/muthill-old-church-and-tower/
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