General view of Cathedral.

Description General view of Cathedral.

Date 1895

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

Catalogue Number SC 730174

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 13122

Scope and Content Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane, Stirling, from the south-east Dunblane Cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built on high ground above the River Allan, was begun c.1238 by Bishop Clement, and incorporates a tower from an earlier Romanesque church on the site. The nave was left unroofed after the Reformation, and the building was completely restored by the architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, between 1889 and 1893. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the exterior in 1895. The church has a tall, narrow nave (left), and a tall, aisleless, late 13th-century choir (right) whose east and south walls are almost entirely windows. The late 11th-century square tower has arched Romanesque windows in the lower storeys, and an upper stage and parapet, distinguished by a change of colour of the stonework, added in the 15th century. The surrounding burial ground contains an interesting collection of 18th- and 19th-century gravestones. There has probably been a church at Dunblane since Early Christian times. The cathedral was built as the seat of Bishop Clement, bishop of the diocese of Dunblane which then stretched from the River Forth to Strathearn. Its construction involved the demolition of the original 12th-century church on the site, but its free-standing bell-tower was incorporated, not quite at right angles, into the south wall of the cathedral. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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