Interior-detail of choir stalls

Description Interior-detail of choir stalls

Date 1914

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 730189

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22805

Scope and Content Choir Stalls, Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane, Stirling Dunblane Cathedral, a Gothic cathedral begun c.1238, was added to and altered a number of times before suffering damage in the 16th century during the Reformation. In 1889-93 the building was completely restored by the architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, and the choir refurnished in 1912-14 by the architect, Sir Robert Lorimer. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1914. Lorimer lined the choir with stalls in two rows, those at the front with narrow panels and those at the back with wider panels, their divisions repeated by the slightly projecting canopy over them which was richly carved by William & Alexander Clow to contrast with the plain masonry above. The pew ends (or 'haffits' as they are generally called in Scotland) are carved as poppy heads. His design for the Thistle Chapel, St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in 1911 had established Robert Lorimer as Scotland's leading exponent of the Gothic style. In his refurnishing of Dunblane Cathedral, Lorimer again used the Gothic style on the first lofty church interior he had to work with, and again working with the wood carvers, William & Alexander Clow, who undertook all the finest carving. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 66

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