Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of a road drive, with Scottish music, on a single track road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the parish church and graveyard in Collessie, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Collessie is located South of Newburgh in Fife. The present church at Collessie was opened in 1839 and little has changed since then. The building replaced an earlier one which by the 1830s was so cold and damp as to be beyond repair. During the building of the present church the villagers of Collessie pulled it down as it was being built because it was being built over graves and the Riot Act had to be read to allow the church building to be finished. The Disruption of 1843 resulted in the minister and most of the congregation leaving and establishing a Free Church at Giffordstown. Then in 1882 the congregation moved to the newly built St. Mary’s UF Church in Ladybank. Collessie kirkyard has been a burial site since the 12th Century but is no longer in use apart from those who already own a lair. When the Abbey of Lindores was founded circa 1200 the monks were granted the patronage and revenues of the parish of Collessie by Sir Roger de Quincey of Kinloch. In 1243 the church was rededicated by Bishop David de Bernham of St. Andrews but the site may even have been used for worship in pre Christian times. Collessie was on the pilgrim route to St Andrews.
Sir William Oliphant Hutchison is buried in Collessie graveyard. Born in Kirkcaldy, Hutchison was a scholar at Kirkcaldy High School, and subsequently at Rugby School. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912. On leaving he started the Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith,[1] Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery,and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Hutchison also worked and studied in Paris for a while, mainly painting portraits though also producing landscape and figure paintings. Hutchison enlisted during the First World War serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery and being stationed in Malta, later being badly wounded in France. After demobilization in 1918, he and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London. Here he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director. Though a great traditionalist he encouraged those who tended to the avant garde. The school maintained an interest in those staff and students serving during World War II, sending them gifts and cards. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959 and was knighted in 1953. He died on 5 February 1970 at his home at 30 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, England. 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. The date for astronomical Spring is 20th March, ending on 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, Spring starts on 1st March. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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