Autumn Parish Church With Music On History Visit To Braemar Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of the exterior and interior of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family, history visit to Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Gothic, cruciform church with tower and spire. The inspiration for the building of this former Free Church in 1870 was the Reverend Hugh Cobban. Unusually, he was buried in the church, behind the pulpit. In the apse are four lancet stained glass windows with lilies, a branch with fruit and a tree with palms. Hugh Cobban was born at Tain and educated in Aberdeen; and Braemar, where he was ordained in 1854, was his first and only charge. Not that he might not have occupied a more prominent place if he had chosen, for he was invited to fill, among others, the pulpit of Free St. John’s, Edinburgh. His resident Braemar congregation was indeed small, but down the Dee valley and up almost every glen, and deep buried in the forests, there were hamlets and small villages, and to visit these on foot or on horseback, and to hold meetings, afforded work sufficient to tax the strength of the strongest man. To perform this work steadily implied a strong sense of duty, but to do it with the ardour and spirit which Mr. Cobban displayed, proved the possession of a Christian character of the highest order. In such wanderings many were his adventures and hair-breadth escapes, from the sudden storms and snow drifts which, during six months of the year, prevail in this wildest district of the Highlands. His appearance as a preacher while occupying the Free Church pulpit at Braemar that will be chiefly remembered by a wide circle. Many are scattered over England, Scotland, Ireland, and America who will remember the Sundays spent in the pine-besprinkled Highland village, surrounded with noble heather hills, forming the centre of our great deer forests, and the humble Presbyterian church associated with it. 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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