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The article focuses on the preoccupations of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, third Marquees of Bute, in commissioning and shaping his Byzantine church, St. Sophia's, Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland. It notes that Bute wanted to build a church in the Byzantine style which had first impressed him as an adolescent. It also noted to have begun with his desire to build a dome. Having decided on the style of church, he sought an architect to build it. The structure was considered to be the first building in Scotland wholly in the Byzantine style, and is also notable for the material used in its construction. |
