Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of the Abbey, including the communion table and the Great East stained glass window, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Paisley, Renfrewshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Paisley Abbey located about 7 miles West of Glasgow is a former Cluniac monastery, and current Church of Scotland parish kirk, located on the east bank of the White Cart Water in the centre of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, in west central Scotland. The Great East Window depicts the ascended Christ by the stained glass artist, Dr. Robert Douglas Strachan, born 26th May 1875, died in Aberdeen in 1950. He was considered the most significant Scottish designer of stained glass windows in the 20th Century. Schooled at Robert Gordon's, he studied art at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, at the Life School of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy in London. From 1895 to 1897 Strachan worked in Manchester as a black and white artist on several newspapers, and as a political cartoonist for the Manchester Evening Chronicle, until ill health forced him to return to Aberdeen. Although Strachan was interested in Futurism, Cubism, and Vorticism, his work shows little influence of this. Strachan often composed his windows in areas of pure colour which were then defined by areas of silvery white. His largest commission was to design the windows for the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle. Following the Reformation in the 16th century, it became a Church of Scotland parish kirk. It is believed that Saint Mirin, or Saint Mirren, founded a community on this site in 7th century. Some time after his death a shrine to the Saint was established, becoming a popular site of pilgrimage and veneration. 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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