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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:09 pm    Post subject: Douglas Strachan Reply with quote

I have hardly any information on Douglas Strachan the stained glass artist but thought I might at least get him listed.
There is a short Wikepedia entry here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Strachan
There are also some more photos here:
http://homepages.tesco.net/~rona/Scottish-glass.html

Douglas Strachan LLD HRSA
Born Aberdeen 1875
Died 1950

Decorated the New Trades Hall and the Music Hall, Aberdeen.

1912 Window, Saint Magnus Cathedral
http://sites.scran.ac.uk/stmagnus/smc040.htm

In 1915 Pittendrigh MacGillivray executed a bronze bust of Strachan which is now in Aberdeen Art Gallery.

1919 Symington Parish Church restoration.

1920 Saint John's Kirk, Perth; East Window.
http://www.st-johns-kirk.co.uk/Windows.htm

1920's was responsible for all of the stained glass in the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, and for the design of the planets above the windows.

1930's Saint Salvator's Chapel, St. Andrews University.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/UniversityChapels/ChapelofStSalvator/StainedglassofStSalvators/ThestainedglassdesignsofDouglasStrachan/

1930's Kilbrandon and Kilchattan Parish Church.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/seil/kilbrandonchurch/index.html

1930's The Margaret Chapel, Edinburgh Castle

Other works:
Winchelsea Church, East Sussex, the Church of St Thomas the Martyr.
St Machar's Cathedral.
King's College Chapel, Aberdeen.
Palace of Peace at The Hague.
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