Tour Scotland video of the Brodie memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window, Fisher of Men, was installed and dedicated to Peter Phillip Brodie, former minister of the church and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The church is named after St. Mungo, also known as St. Kentigern, patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling and serves the parish of Alloa. A chapel dedicated to St. Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which became dependent upon the Parish of Tullibody. Alloa had grown into a parish in its own right by 1600 when the Act of Assembly united the two parishes. In 1680, the original chapel was rebuilt and enlarged. The current church replaces the old parish church from the seventeenth century which had been deemed much too small for the congregation for over seventy years and was declared ruinous and unsafe in August 1815. The condition of the old church was so bad that services were often being held in the open air rather than risking injury to the congregation.
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