Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys. Dugald Butler

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       Dugald Butler

      Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664613059

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       SCOTTISH CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS

       CHAPTER I RELATION OF CELTIC CHURCH TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

       CHAPTER II SKETCH OF SCOTTISH ARCHITECTURE

       1. Norman Architecture

       2. Scottish Transition Style

       3. Scottish First Pointed Period

       4. Scottish Middle Pointed or Decorated Period

       5. Scottish Third or Late Pointed Period

       CHAPTER III

       1. Diocese of St. Andrews

       2. Diocese of Glasgow

       3. Diocese of Dunkeld

       4. Diocese of Aberdeen

       5. Diocese of Moray

       6. Diocese of Brechin

       7. Diocese of Dunblane

       8. Diocese of Ross

       9. Diocese of Caithness

       10. Diocese of Galloway

       11. Diocese of Lismore or Argyll

       12. Diocese of the Isles

       13. Diocese of Orkney

       CHAPTER IV SCOTTISH COLLEGIATE CHURCHES

       St. Giles, Edinburgh

       CHAPTER V PARISH CHURCHES ILLUSTRATING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NORMAN PERIOD

       Parish Churches Illustrating Middle Pointed or Decorated Period

       Parish Churches of Third or Late Pointed Period

       Dundee Church Tower

       CHAPTER VI SCOTTISH MONASTICISM

       CHAPTER VII GENERAL SURVEY OF SCOTTISH MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE

       APPENDIX DEFINITION OF LEADING ARCHITECTURAL TERMS [482]

INTRODUCTION

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      This book is designed to render to Scottish Churchmen the special service of presenting to them, in a brief but comprehensive survey, the record of their ecclesiastical history which is engraved in their ecclesiastical architecture. There is no record so authentic as that which is built in stone. There is none so sacred as that which attests and illustrates the religion of our forefathers. Much of that record has perished: enough remains to engage our reverent study and our dutiful care. Foreign war and rapine have wasted and destroyed our heritage of sacred places. Kelso, Jedburgh, Melrose, and Haddington fell before the English invader. Iona was ravaged by the Dane, while yet the island formed part of a Scandinavian diocese. Internal lawlessness and tribal fury have wrought like disasters. Elgin, once "the fair glory of the land," stands a forlorn monument of the savagery of a Highland chief. St. Andrews, Lindores, Perth, Paisley, and many others bear witness to the reckless outrage which cloaked its violence under the guise of religious zeal. Of all our spoilers this has been the most destructive. The pretence (for it often was nothing else) of "cleansing the sanctuary" not only robbed the Church of many a priceless possession, but begat, in the popular mind, a ruthless disregard of the sacred associations of places where generation after generation had worshipped God, and a coarse indifference to the solemnity of His ordinances, which made it easy for those who should have been the guardians of the churches to let them fall, unheeded, into decay.

      It is not uncommon, even yet, to find people who ought to know, and perhaps do know, better, blaming Knox and his co-reformers for the dilapidation and desecration of our ancient fanes. The blame belongs to the "rascal multitude," and to the rapacious laymen who were served heirs to the properties of the despoiled Church. What is the Church the better for their enrichment? What has religion gained by it? The Reformed Faith could have flourished none the less graciously if its purified doctrine had been preached, and its reasonable worship offered, under the same roofs that had protected priest and people in the days of Romanist error. Is the cause of pure and undefiled religion stronger in the land because Melrose and Crossraguel and Pluscarden are desolate; St. Andrews a roofless ruin; Iona as yet open to the Atlantic winds? Is the voice of praise and prayer sweeter in the North because Mortlach is effaced and Fortrose shattered, and the bells are silent which men on the mainland used to hear when the north wind blew from Kirkwall? Granted that ignorant superstition may have tainted the veneration in which our fathers' holy and beautiful houses were held 400 years ago, the iconoclasm which devastated them was not the remedy for it. The revived interest in our old churches, which has asserted its influence in such restorations as those of St. Giles, Dunblane, Linlithgow, St. Vigeans, and Arbuthnott,