Saint Drostan Church And Graveyard With Music On History Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video, clip, with Scottish music, of Saint Drostan Church and graveyard by Loch Alvie on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Scottish Highlands. Built as a rectangular East to West orientated church in 1768; on the site of an earlier church or chapel and set within a circular walled enclosure. The church has been subsequently repaired in 1833, 1880 and 1952. The 1952 restoration involved Sir Basil Spence. Spence was born on 13 August 1907 in Bombay, British India. the son of Urwin Archibald Spence, an assayer with the Royal Mint. He was educated at the John Connon School, operated by the Bombay Scottish Education Society, and was then sent back to Scotland to attend George Watson's College in Edinburgh, from 1919 to 1925. He enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art in 1925, studying architecture, where he secured a maintenance scholarship on the strength of the " unusual brilliance " of his work. He won several prizes at the college, and meanwhile carried out paid work drawing architectural perspectives for practising architects including Leslie Grahame-Thomson, Reginald Fairlie and Frank Mears. In 1929, he spent a year as an assistant, along with William Kininmonth, in the London office of Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose work was to have a profound influence on Spence's style, where he worked on designs for the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, India. While in London, England, he attended evening classes at the Bartlett School of Architecture under A. E. Richardson. Returning to Edinburgh in 1930 for his final year of studies, he was appointed a junior lecturer, despite the fact that he was still a student. He continued to teach at Edinburgh College of Art until 1939. In 1934 Spence married, and his work was now concentrated on exhibition design, including three pavilions for the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, and country houses. He is most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also was responsible for numerous other building. Spence died in November 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk and was buried at nearby Thornham Parva. Saint Drostan was a Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600. He appears to have belonged to the royal family of the Scoti, his father's name being Cosgrach. Showing signs of a religious vocation he was entrusted at an early age to the care of St. Columba, who trained him and gave him the monastic habit. Drostan was one of the twelve companions who sailed from Ireland to Scotland around 563 with Saint Columba. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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