Interior Of St Mary's Parish Church On Visit To Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of St Mary's Parish Church on visit to Dundee, Tayside. The earliest church on this site was known as St. Mary’s Church and dates from the late 12th Century. It was largely destroyed in 1548. The site now occupied by St. Mary’s Parish Church, originally the Choir of the 12th Century Church, was rebuilt and used as a jail and library in the late 16th Century. In 1841 the building was again destroyed, this time by fire and in its place St. Mary’s Parish Church was built between 1842 and 1844 by Burn & Bryce, also known as the East Church. The church has a large worship space with five tall columns supporting stone arches along the north and south side. A large stained glass window can be seen on the east wall, behind the pulpit. There are two smaller gothic windows with stained glass either side of it, a further four on the south wall and three on the north wall; the upper gallery cuts the smaller stained glass windows in half. At the back of the church, the western end, there are two other stained glass windows set in an arched recess in the wall opposite one another. The window on the south wall is linked to The Guildry of Dundee; the window on the north wall to the High School of Dundee. A final stained glass window can be found in the centre of the north wall, just underneath the wall head. On either side of it are two plain windows. Opposite on the south side are five plain windows.

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