Walter Lovi
Father Walter Lovi (1796 – 1878) was a Roman Catholic priest and architect, active in Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century.[1] He was born in Edinburgh in 1796,[2] the son of a Scottish mother and an Italian father.[3] He studied at Scots College in Rome, and at St Sulpice's seminary in Paris,[4] where he was ordained at the age of 26.[2]
It is possible that Lovi may have worked with James Kyle on the design of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Dufftown, Banffshire between 1824 and 1825,[5] and he worked with the architect William Robertson on St Thomas's in Keith between 1831 and 1832.[6]
In 1832, Kyle dispatched him to
Lovi left Wick soon after the church was built, and helped tend the sick in cholera outbreaks in various different parts of the country.[3][7] He also supervised construction of St Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in Braemar in 1839,[11] and assisted Kyle with the completion and remodelling of the Church of The Incarnation in Tombae between 1843 and 1844.[12]
Lovi died in 1878.[4]
References
- ^ "(Father) Walter Lovi". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b Gordon, James Frederick Skinner (1880). The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and Botriphnie. R. Forrester. p. 246.
- ^ a b c d e Donaldson, Noel. "Father Walter Lovi: Courage and Faith". The Orkney News. The Orkney News. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-9004354364.
- ^ "St Mary's RC Church". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "St Thomas's RC Church". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Wick faithful mark historic milestone". John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier. SPP Media Group. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b "St Joachim's Catholic Church". Communities.Caithness.Org. Caithness.Org. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "St Joachim's RC Church". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Malcolm Street, St Joachim's Roman Catholic Church (LB42316)". Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "St Andrews RC Church". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "RC Church of the Incarnation, Tombae". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
