Interior Of Carriden Parish Church In Bo'ness On History Visit To West Lothian Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of Carriden Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Bo'ness, West Lothian. The chancel apse contains three stained glass windows depicting St George, Christ and St James all installed in 1912. Peter MacGregor Chalmers designed Carriden Parish Church in 1908. The baptistery apse has a single light of the Virgin and Child dated 1928. Peter MacGregor Chalmers was born on 14 March 1859, the son of George, a mechanical engineer, and his wife, Jane (née MacGregor). He was educated at Glasgow Secular School, then articled to the architect John Honeyman. He set up in private practice from 1887. From around 1900 many of his churches adopt a very distinctive circular tower. In 1904 he was living at 6 Minard Road, now Turnberry Road, in Glasgow. The property is a substantial four bedroom tenement flat, in Glasgow's west end. His offices were in a more prestigious property at 95 Bath Street. He travelled very widely, and Glasgow University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1920 for his writings. In 1905 he was married to Barbara Greig Steel, born 1860, died 1939, of Partick. He died of a heart attack while visiting his cousin, Rev. R. H. Fisher, in Edinburgh on 15 March 1922. He is buried in the lower southern section of the Glasgow Necropolis alongside the north-east path that leads to the main, upper section. The surname Chalmers was first found in Denbighshire, Welsh: Sir Ddinbych, a historic county in Northeast Wales, created by the Laws in Wales Act 1536, where they held lands at Llewenne, granted to John de Chambre from the Earl of Lincoln, who was Constable of Chester. John was a " nobelle Normanne who entred Englaunde in ye traine of King Williaume. " Spelling variations of this family name include: Chambers, Chalmers, Chamer, Chalmairs, Challmers and others. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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