Parish Church Alyth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of the Parish Church on visit to Alyth, Perthshire. This Scottish church, with its prominent position above Alyth, was completed in 1839 to the grand design of an Edinburgh architect, Thomas Hamilton. It is Gothic in style, with Romanesque influences, especially in the windows, and has an unusually high spire. Thomas Hamilton born 11 January 1784, was a Scottish architect, based in Edinburgh where he designed many of that city's prominent buildings. Born in Glasgow, his works include: the Burns Monument in Alloway; the Royal High School on the south side of Calton Hill, long considered as a possible home for the Scottish Parliament; the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; the George IV Bridge, which spans the Cowgate; the Dean Orphan Hospital, now the Dean Gallery; the New North Road Free Church, now the Bedlam Theatre; Cumstoun, a private house in Dumfries and Galloway; and the Scottish Political Martyrs' Monument in Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh. He was one of the leading Greek Revivalists in Scotland, " more imaginative than his peers and more refined in his detailing ". He was a favourite of the church for his Gothic designs, being commissioned to design many Free Churches after the Disruption of 1843. He also designed shops and banks, many of which survive. Hamilton was a founding member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826. In the 1830s he is listed as living at 57 York Place, on the eastern edge of the Edinburgh New Town. He trained John Henderson in the 1820s. The architect John Starforth trained under Hamilton in the 1830. He died at 9 Howe Street, an office, on 24 February 1858.

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