Tour Scotland Video South Transept Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the South Transept stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gifted by the 1st Lord Forteviot, the window is by Herbert Hendrie, and was completed in 1929. John Knox preached against idolatry in the Kirk on 11th May 1559, an event said to mark the start of the Reformation in Scotland. His sermon whipped the congregation into a frenzy, such that they stoned the priest, divested the church of its ornamentation, and then proceeded to the nearby Greyfriars, Blackfriars and Charterhouse monasteries, stripping them back to their bare walls. Following the Reformation the building was divided into three separate churches; East, Middle and West, each with its own Minister. The north transept was cut back by James Gillespie Graham in 1825 to improve the flow of traffic and Graham went on to carry out various repairs to the church.
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