Walter Lovi
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Father Walter Lovi was a Roman Catholic priest and architect, active in Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century. He was born in Edinburgh in 1796, the son of a Scottish mother and an Italian father. He
St Joachim's RC Church in Wick
James Kyle (bishop)
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James Francis Kyle was a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop who served as the first Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of Scotland.
Walter Lovi
…at Scots College in Rome, and at St Sulpice's seminary in Paris, where he was ordained at the age of 26. 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, and he worked with the architect William Robertson on…
Portrait by James Bisset, Blairs Museum