Tour Scotland Travel Video Stained Glass Windows Holy Name Church Oakley Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of stained glass windows in the the Holy Name Church on ancestry visit to Oakley, Fife, Scotland. This church was constructed for Roman Catholic miners who had moved from Lanarkshire to work in the more prosperous coalfields of West Fife. It was designed by Charles W Gray in 1958 and built by the Smith ligo family of Inzievar House, which is to the east of the church. The stained glass windows and carved Stations of the Cross around the walls of the church are by Gabrielle Loire who produced stained glass in his studio near Chartres Cathedral from 1946. He created both traditional leaded stained glass and modern works in glass slab, called dalle de verre, used for the windows in this church. The small round windows n the southern wall have decortive coloured glass backgrounds and symbols of the Eucharist, such as loaves and fishes, and a dove. The round headed window in the southern transept has an image of Mary with the baby Jesus.

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