Interior. General view of vaulting in Albany Aisle
ED 644
Description Interior. General view of vaulting in Albany Aisle
Date c. 1935
Catalogue Number ED 644
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1225943, SC 426655
Scope and Content Albany Aisle in St Giles' Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh The High Kirk of St Giles has been a central feature of the Old Town for nearly 800 years. Its central tower with open crown forms a distinctive feature of the sky-line of the city. The Albany Aisle, added to St Giles c.1410 by Robert, Duke of Albany and Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas, has fine pointed tunnel-vaulting with surface ribs, characteristic of Scottish late medieval architecture. The Albany Aisle, one of several chapels added to St Giles in the 15th and 16th centuries, was built c.1410 by the Duke of Albany and the Earl of Douglas in expiation of their crime of starving to death the Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne, in 1402. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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