Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

Dugald Butler

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys, by Dugald Butler and Herbert Story This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Author: Dugald Butler and Herbert Story Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21688] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCOTTISH CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS *** Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE GUILD LIBRARY "All the manuals are fine examples of careful workmanship and scholarly industry."—"Independent and Nonconformist," 17th August 1896. "A series of which we have often spoken in terms of very high commendation."—"Record," 11th March 1898. 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CLARK, LIMITED PUBLICATION AGENTS FOR THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 1901 [Pg v] PREFACE In preparation for this Guild Book I wrote an account of every pre-Reformation structure in Scotland of which any remains now survive, but the prescribed limits of the series necessitated a selection. The Scottish cathedrals are all here treated, with representative collegiate and monastic buildings. Reference is also made to parish churches that represent the architecture of the various periods indicated in Chapter II. A survey of Scottish mediæval architecture will be found in pp. 194-206 that may enable readers to take a comprehensive view of the whole. A study of those treated in particular will lead to a study of those treated of necessity in general, and illustrate the idea that the history of the Scottish Church is the history of the ideality and faith of the Scottish people, and that the one cannot be separated from the other. A healthy present must always be bound by a natural piety to the past that has made it, or at least helped it to be what it is, and this study may enable readers to reali