Interior-general view looking towards pulpit

Description Interior-general view looking towards pulpit

Date 1895

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

Catalogue Number BL 13123/A

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 730177, B 64285

Scope and Content Nave, Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane, Stirling, looking east towards the choir Dunblane Cathedral, a Gothic cathedral begun c.1238, suffered damage during the Reformation and fell into decay with the nave left unroofed. The building was completely restored by the renowned Scottish architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, between 1889 and 1893. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The tall, narrow, eight-bayed nave dates from c.1240. It has a galleried clerestory, and pillars with clustered shafts supporting the arches of the side aisles. The vaulted timber roof was part of Anderson's restoration, as was the canopied pulpit (left) and elaborately carved choir screen (centre). The cathedral, a 13th-century replacement for an original Romanesque building, was added to and altered a number of times before suffering damage c.1560 during the Reformation. The original timber roof of the nave fell in through the subsequent neglect. The choir continued to be maintained as a parish church until 1889 when Rowand Anderson restored the whole fabric of the building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 22

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