Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit in the town of Millport on visit to the Isle of Cumbrae. George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow, was benefactor of the cathedral and the associated theological college and commissioned William Butterfield to design the building. Butterfield was one of the great architects of the Gothic revival and also designed St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth, Perthshire. Construction finished in 1849 and the cathedral opened in 1851 as a collegiate church. The Chapel of the College of the Holy Spirit was raised to the status of a cathedral in 1876.
William Butterfield was born in London, England, in 1814. His parents were strict non conformists who ran a chemist's shop in the Strand. He was one of nine children and was educated at a local school. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to Thomas Arber, a builder in Pimlico, who later became bankrupt. He studied architecture under E. L. Blackburne, born 1833, died 1836. From 1838 to 1839, he was an assistant to Harvey Eginton, an architect in Worcester, where he became articled. He established his own architectural practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1840. Butterfield received the RIBA Gold Medal in 1884. He died in London on 23 February 1900, and was buried in a simple Gothic tomb, designed by himself in Tottenham Cemetery, Haringey, North London.
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