Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the exterior and interior stained glass windows on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The church is named after Saint Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling and serves the parish of Alloa. A chapel dedicated to St Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which became dependent upon the Parish of Tullibody. Alloa had grown into a parish in its own right by 1600 when the Act of Assembly united the two parishes. In 1680, the original chapel was rebuilt and enlarged. The current church replaces the old parish church from the seventeenth century which had been deemed much too small for the congregation for over seventy years and was declared ruinous and unsafe in August 1815. The current church was designed by architect James Gillespie Graham. The church has several stained glass windows that were installed as memorials. The Good Shepherd window in 1896 is dedicated to William Duncan Bruce and his wife. The Tie Deum window in 1901 is dedicated to Alexander Bryson, former minister of the church, born 1870, died 1900, and the Gethsemane window in 1910 is dedicated to the wife of James Brown. In 1991, a memorial window the Fisher of Men was installed and dedicated to Peter Phillip Brodie, former minister of the church, born 1947, died 1986, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1978 to 1979. 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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