Interior Of Saint Fergus Kirk On History Visit To Glamis Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of Saint Fergus Kirk on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Glamis in Angus Region. It is reputed that a church has stood on this site since the 8th century, when St Fergus established a small ecclesiastical structure. Records show that a church has existed here since at least 1242, when David de Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, dedicated the church at Glamis and granted it to Arbroath Abbey. The earlier church, being " old and in very bad condition ", was demolished in 1790 and two years later the present church was opened. The interior of the church you see today dates back largely to a major remodelling which took place in 1933. Until then, St Fergus Kirk had been a typical post Reformation "preaching box", with a pulpit positioned mid way along the south wall; the ground floor pews aligned to face it; and galleries on the north side and at the east and west ends of the church. In 1933 a new chancel was built at the east end, connected to the nave by a beautifully proportioned arch. All the pews were re-oriented to face the east end, which is where the communion table and pulpit have since stood. The north and east galleries were removed: today only the west gallery remains. Saint Fergus, also Fergustian, died c. 730 AD, he was a bishop who worked in Scotland as a missionary. No one knows for certain when Fergus was born or where. He was a contemporary of St. Drostan and St. Donevaldus. The name is of Pictish origin and he is recorded as Fergus, a Pictish bishop, so it is generally considered he was from the north east of what is now called Scotland. In the Aberdeen Breviary he is called Fergustian and " he occupied himself in converting the barbarous people. " He is thought to have trained in Ireland or the south of Scotland, possibly both. Known in the Irish martyrologies as St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, the Breviary of Aberdeen states that he had been a bishop for many years in Ireland when he went on a mission to Alba with some chosen priests and other clerics. He settled first near Strageath, in Upper Strathearn, in Upper Perth, and erected three churches in that district. The churches of Strageath, Blackford, and Dolpatrick are found there dedicated to St. Patrick. He next evangelized Caithness and established there the churches of Wick and Halkirk. Saint Fergus is the patron saint of Glamis and Wick. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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