Forfar Attractions

The Pictish king Nechtan is said to have laid the foundation stone to the little church of St Peter (1.5mi/2.4km northeast of Forfar). It is, after St Ninian in Whithorn, the oldest stone church in Scotland. King David I ordered the church to be rebuilt in 1153 for the Augustinians, but the spire for the Norman tower was not added until the 15th century. The abandoned monastery buildings and other parts date from later years.