Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a walk around the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, Outlander, family history visit and trip to Falkland, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. On the site of an earlier building, the present church was completed in 1850 to a design by David Bryce who was born in 1803 in Edinburgh, the son of a successful builder. He was educated at the High School of Edinburgh, where he demonstrated considerable artistic aptitude. In 1825 at the age of 22 he joined the staff of the eminent architect William Burn. During his life, David Bryce was appointed a Member of the Royal Scottish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Scotland, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he died on 7 May 1876. The church was gifted to the people of Falkland by Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce, of the family of Bruce of Earlshall. The first church was erected in 1595 after Falkland received its royal charter. It was replaced in 1620 but the building was said to be in poor condition by the 1840s, necessitating its demolition. The church is built on rising ground in the centre of the village and faces south onto the High Street. The three stained glass windows on the north elevation are by A. Ballantine and Gardiner, dated 1897, and depict the Nativity, the Resurrection and the Ascension of Christ. Ballantine & Company was a Scottish manufacturer of stained-glass windows, one of several names the company worked under. The business was founded in Edinburgh by James Ballantine, born 1806, died 1877 and George Allan as Ballantine and Allan. They began making stained glass in the 1830s. In 1843, they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although it was subsequently changed to that of the House of Lords in London, England. James' son, Alexander, born 1841, died 1906, joined the business, which thence became known as Ballantine and Son until 1905. Herbert Gardiner joined in 1905. Alexander's son, James Ballantine III, also joined in 1905, a year before his father's death. Some of the firm's work was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness in the Highlands, Falkland is where Claire and Frank stay on their second honeymoon. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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