Autumn Rain St Matthews Church Tay Street On Visit To Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of leaves and rain by the iconic St Mathews Church on Tay Street and by the River Tay on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Perth, Perthshire. Early English Gothic by John Honeyman 1871. Its impressive steeple is a much photographed landmark of Perth. The building in Tay Street that became St Matthews was designed by John Honeyman and built between 1869 and 1871. It is Victorian Gothic in style, and a Session room was added in 1872. A Mission Hall was built in 1880 and a further large hall was added in 1896, when the re-decorated church was opened. John Honeyman was born at 21 Carlton Place, Glasgow on 11 August 1831, the third son of John Honeyman JP of the corn factors John Honeyman & Company, and his wife Isabella Smith. The River Tay, Scottish Gaelic: Tatha, is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui mountain, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laoigh, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, then south easterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee in Tayside All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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