Winter Road Trip With Music On History Visit To St John's Church Cupar Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive in sunny and cold weather on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to St John's Church in Cupar, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This church was built between 1875 and 1878 by Campbell Douglas and James 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. The spire is 150ft tall, is the tallest building in Cupar, and dominates the skyline. James Sellars, architect, was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow on 2 December 1843, the son of a house-factor of the same name. Lindsay Miller, writing in 1888, records that 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 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. In 1871 he married his second wife, Jeanie Moodie, and he was admitted to the Glasgow Institute of Architects in March 1872. In the 1880s Sellars became influenced by the work of Rowand Anderson, probably through Campbell Douglas & Sellars's continuing friendship with George Washington Browne. Interest in the early Renaissance work of Anderson and Browne showed first at the octagonal Free Abbey Church in Dunfermline in 1881 and progressed through Scots Renaissance and Scots Georgian influenced designs to the competition design for Renfrew County Buildings, close in design to Anderson's Edinburgh Medical School, and Anderson's College of Medicine in Glasgow which mixed Early Italian Renaissance and later Scots seventeenth-century motifs, both of 1888. He died of blood poisoning at his house, 9 Montgomerie Crescent on 9 October and was buried on the 11th at Lambhill situated north of the River Clyde in Glasgow. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. 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. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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