Interior-detail of plaque commemorating Arthur Penhryn Stanley

Description Interior-detail of plaque commemorating Arthur Penhryn Stanley

Date 1893

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

Catalogue Number SC 730222

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9738

Scope and Content Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Memorial, Preston Aisle, St Giles' Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh St Giles' Cathedral, the historical High Kirk of Edinburgh, dates from the late 14th century although some evidence remains of an earlier 12th-century church on the site. It was damaged and altered in the 16th century after the Reformation, and remodelled in the early 19th century before being restored in 1871-83 to much of its former glory. The interior was photographed in 1893 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This bronze portrait, a replica of a memorial by Mary Grant in St George's Chapel, Windsor, is a monument to the Very Reverend Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, and is set into the wall to the left of the door leading to the ante-chapel of the Thistle Chapel. The inscription under the portrait reads: 'In memory of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, DD, Dean of Westminster and of the Bath. Celebrated as a churchman, historian and divine. He loved Scotland and her church and is therefore fitly commemorated here. Born Dec 13th 1815. Charity never faileth. Died July 18th 1881'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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