Tour Scotland Photograph Video World War 1 Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the World War 1 stained glass window in St John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Forteviot Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Forteviot stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Dedicated in 1932, the window was given Lady Forteviot in memory of her husband, John Alexander Dewar, chairman of the whisky company John Dewar & Sons, and a principal benefactor behind the restoration of St John’s in the 1920s. It is the work of the Glasgow stained glass firm, Guthrie and Wells and represents Moses as he strikes the rock at Horeb to obtain water.


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Tour Scotland Video John MacNaughton Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the John MacNaughton stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. The Clan MacNaughton are amongst the Scottish clans who claim descent from the early Pictish rulers of the Mormaer of Moray. The name Nectan means pure or clear and was popular in at least one Pictish royal branch. Three brothers are recorded in the thirteenth century: Gilchrist, Athe and Gilbert, all sons of Malcolm Macnachten. In 1297 Gilchrist received a charter from King Alexander III of Scotland which granted to him the keepership of a castle warding the narrow Pass of Brander, which was the gateway to the west.

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Tour Scotland Video South Transept Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the South Transept stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gifted by the 1st Lord Forteviot, the window is by Herbert Hendrie, and was completed in 1929. John Knox preached against idolatry in the Kirk on 11th May 1559, an event said to mark the start of the Reformation in Scotland. His sermon whipped the congregation into a frenzy, such that they stoned the priest, divested the church of its ornamentation, and then proceeded to the nearby Greyfriars, Blackfriars and Charterhouse monasteries, stripping them back to their bare walls. Following the Reformation the building was divided into three separate churches; East, Middle and West, each with its own Minister. The north transept was cut back by James Gillespie Graham in 1825 to improve the flow of traffic and Graham went on to carry out various repairs to the church.
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Tour Scotland Video North Transept Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the North Transept stained glass window in St John's Kirk, on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gifted by Lord Dewar, the window was by Herbert Hendrie and dedicated in 1930. Representing Perth's oldest and most historically-significant building, the A-listed St. John's Kirk is located between the High Street and South Street, at the heart of the Mediaeval city centre. It was this church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, that gave Perth its former name of St. Johnstoun. There was a church here in 1126, when King David I extracted funds to support Dunfermline Abbey, but it was probably not completed until 1242, when it was dedicated by David de Bernham, the Bishop of St Andrews. It had become a foundation of considerable importance, because King Alexander III's heart was buried here in 1286.
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