Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of Ludgate with stained glass windows of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Alloa in Clackmannanshire. A nineteenth Century refurbishment of an older eighteenth Century Meeting House. The sanctuary area, gifted in the early twentieth Century includes an A-listed organ, stained glass windows by Charles Earner Kempe and intricate Neo Gothic carving of pulpit and screens. A sympathetic reordering of the main Church has retained all of the character and form of the old Church. Charles Eamer Kempe was born at Ovingdean Hall, near Brighton, East Sussex, England, in 1837. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel Kemp, born 1759, died 1843, a cousin of Thomas Read Kemp, a politician and property developer responsible for the Kemptown area of Brighton, and the maternal grandson of Sir John Eamer, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1801. After attending Twyford School and Rugby, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford where he was influenced by the Anglo Catholic Tractarian revival and considered a vocation to the priesthood. It was at Oxford that Kempe was inspired by seeing William Morris design the Debating Chamber at the Oxford Union. When he realised he was unable to manage his stammer, Kempe decided that " if I was not permitted to minister in the Sanctuary I would use my talents to adorn it ", and subsequently went to study architecture with the firm of a leading ecclesiastical architect George Frederick Bodley. In 1866 he opened a studio of his own in London, supplying and creating stained glass and furnishings and vestments. The firm prospered and by 1899 he had over fifty employees. As a trademark, the firm used a golden 'garb' or heraldic wheatsheaf, taken from Kempe's own coat of arms. Kempe was a rather shy person, who never married. He continued to live in Sussex most of his life and in 1875 he bought and renovated an Elizabethan house at Lindfield, near Haywards Heath in West Sussex. Kempe would entertain his clients and professional colleagues from his home enjoying the role of a country squire. Kempe died suddenly on 28 April 1907 aged 69, at 28 Nottingham Place, London, refusing to get medical help after catching a cold that led to congestion of the lung. He is buried in the churchyard at St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean. 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.
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