Stained Glass Windows On Visit To Parish Church In Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Easter Sunday travel video, with Scottish music, of stained glass windows in the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilconquhar, East Neuk Of Fife. In the south wall of the chancel is this six light window with four panels depicting Old Testament Warriors. To the Glory of God and in Celebration of the Ministerial Jubilee of the Reverend Alexander Legge, VD, 24th September, 1916. This window is gifted by Parishioners and friends. He was born in Banffshire on the 25th of July 1842, educated at Banff Academy and Edinburgh University. Ordained to Congregational Church, Peterhead, 1868. Translated to Congregational Church; Lancaster Road, Preston, 1874. Admitted as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland, 1878. Ordained to St. Andrew's Parish, Dundee, 1878. Minister of Kilconquhar, 1886; translated and admitted, 1886. He died on the 20th of March 1920 in Colinsburgh, Fife. At the east end of the kirk, above the chancel, is this beautiful eight light stained glass window displaying The Acts of Charity. James Drummond was minister here from 1681 to 1699, he was a seventeenth century Scottish covenanting field preacher. He was imprisoned on Bass Rock for around nine months. At the time of his incarceration his occupation was listed as chaplain to Margaret, Marchioness of Argyll. Drummond was first jailed in the tolbooth in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field conventicles.[4] He stayed in prison a short time because he confessed and assured the committee that he would not continue. He was given a conditional discharge on 21 July 1674. After the Glorious Revolution, Drummond began preaching in Kilconquhar, Fife towards the end of March 1691. On 25 June 1691 he was called to be the minister there, and continued until his death on 29 September 1699. William Milligan was minister of the parish from 1850 to 1860 and his son George Milligan was born here in 1860. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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