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 730187

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22804

Scope and Content Detail of 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. The choir stalls, carved in a Gothic style by the wood carvers, William & Alexander Clow, were designed by Lorimer in two rows. Those at the front have narrower panels than those at the back, and their divisions are repeated by the slightly projecting canopy over the back row which was richly carved to contrast sharply with the plain masonry above. The 'haffits' at the end of each pew are carved as poppy-heads. Robert Lorimer (1864-1929) set up in architectural practice in Edinburgh in 1893, and had become Scotland's leading architect by 1911 when he received a knighthood for his designs for the Thistle Chapel, St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. He made full employment of the elaborate carving which was to be a feature of most of his buildings, and worked with the wood carvers, William & Alexander Clow, on both his commissions for the Thistle Chapel and Dunblane Cathedral. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 66

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