Interior Of St John's Church With Music On History Visit To Cupar Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior St John's Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Cupar, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This church was built between 1875 and 1878 by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, architects, of Glasgow, as a Free Church and opened for worship on 28 November 1878. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the church became St. John's United Free Church. In 1929 the United Free Church joined with the Church of Scotland and St. John's became a Church of Scotland building. In 2005 St John's was linked with Dairsie. There are eleven lancet windows along the nave walls some with stained glass including a war memorial stained glass window. Campbell Douglas's practice before 1870 had been chiefly occupied with churches and houses, but in the early 1870s moved into an altogether different league of major commercial projects and public buildings. Douglas's phenomenal success in this field was made possible by the energy and ability of James Sellars, whom he took into partnership from March 1872, if not earlier. James Sellars was born in the Gorbals of Glasgow on 2 December 1843, the son of a house factor of the same name. He was articled to Hugh Barclay at the age of 13 in 1857. He remained there until 1864 when he joined the office of James Hamilton who had a significant practice in Belfast, Ireland, as well as in Glasgow, and remained there for three years, marrying his first wife, Mary Campbell, in 1866. He joined Campbell Douglas's office in 1870. He earned his partnership by winning the first competition for the Stewart Memorial out of fifty designs submitted. In 1871 he married his second wife, Jeanie Moodie, and he was admitted to the Glasgow Institute of Architects in March 1872, his certificate being signed by Alexander Thomson and John Baird, and in the Autumn he took a brief sketching holiday in Paris, Frances, and Normandy, which he put to good use later. This visit probably related to the presence in the office from 1871 of Charles Alfred Chastel de Boinville, a pupil of A Guyot and an ex-assistant of Geoffroy of Cherbourg who had sought employment in Glasgow in the wake of the Franco-Prussian war. As Chastel de Boinville returned to Paris in 1872 it is possible that Sellars travelled with him. Sellars died of blood poisoning at his house, 9 Montgomerie Crescent on 9 October and was buried on the 11th at Lambhill where a very Greek memorial by Keppie marked his grave. 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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