{"id":29566,"date":"2021-04-02T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29566"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:57:48","slug":"historic-rose-window-saved-from-local-church-to-be-incorporated-into-inverness-castle-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29566","title":{"rendered":"Historic rose window saved from local church to be incorporated into Inverness Castle transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ProjectScotland020421.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-29567\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ProjectScotland020421.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>A historic rose window saved from a local Methodist church is to be incorporated into the interior design of the transformation of Inverness Castle.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 removed from its original site on Inglis Street at the time of the Eastgate Centre construction\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 created for the Methodist Church in Inverness built in 1867\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Project Scotland<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The window has been held in storage by The Highland Council and its predecessor local authorities since it was removed from its original site on Inglis Street at the time of the Eastgate Centre construction.<\/p>\n<p>The rose window was originally created for the Methodist Church in Inverness built in 1867. \u00a0The Highland Archive Service has the gable end window has the cost of the window recorded as \u00a31,200. Later church records confirm the benefactor was Mr James Keith, a bookseller from Dingwall.<\/p>\n<p>In an obituary for Mr Keith in the Inverness Courier of January 1897, he was described as, \u201cone of the most correct, attentive and upright business men in the North of Scotland.\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Inverness Castle is currently undergoing a major project to turn it into a \u2018gateway for Highland tourism\u2019. Backed by \u00a315 million in funding from the Scottish Government and \u00a33 million from the UK Government, the project will bring a cafe, viewing terraces and other facilities to the 11th century castle&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projectscot.com\/2021\/03\/historic-rose-window-saved-from-local-church-to-be-incorporated-into-inverness-castle-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic rose window saved from a local Methodist church is to be incorporated into the interior design of the transformation of Inverness Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29568,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions\/29568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}