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Chapel interior in use as the college library.
SC 435681
Description Chapel interior in use as the college library.
Catalogue Number SC 435681
Category On-line Digital Images
Copies G 83535 CS
Scope and Content 19th-century view of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen King's College was founded by Bishop Elphinstone in 1495 with the support of King James IV, hence the name. The college was a truly Renaissance institution with a classical humanist curriculum modelled on that of the University of Paris. This view of the chapel by R W Billings shows the chapel serving as the college library. In the aftermath of the Reformation, surplus churches were converted to a number of uses. The timber ceiling seen in detail in this image was constructed around 1506. The barrel-vaulted ceiling, almost certainly designed by John Fendour, has an arrangement of diagonal ribs which imitate the ribs of quadripartite stone vaulting. The foliage decorations are similar to those in certain churches in the Netherlands. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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