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Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ter is still extant, where, for the conducting of the works, the former,resigns all the second tithes, with the revenue of St. Nicholas Church, itsfishing excepted, and the chapter obliges itself to pay to the master of workssixty pounds sterling annually for ten years. II In 1380, the same zealousbishop obtained bulls granting indulgences in favour of all who might visithis cathedral in devotional pilgrimage, and contribute to the erection of thenave, so that the choir would appear to have been then completed.§ Itappears that a stone roof and a pavement were furnished by Bishop Ingleram,in the middle of the fifteenth century. ^ The west front and the smalltowers had been begun by Bishop Leighton, who was translated from the seein 1424, but were not finished till the episcopacy of Gavin Dunbar, which began * See the subject ably examined in the Preface to tlie Registrum.t Registrum, &c., xiv. I Orem—Description of the Chanonry. II Registrum, &c., Nxi,§ lb. .xxii. ^ lb. xl.
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AUl.UDl.l.N CArilEURAl. ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 23 in 1518.* The north transept was attributed to Leighton, whose tomb, in arichly decorated freestone niche, still contains a poor fragment of thepontifical statue : it is represented in the accompanying plate. The northtransept was built by Bishop Dunbar, and also contained his tomb, afragment of which still exists. But the great ornament and benefactor of the see was the good BishopWilliam Elphinstone, whose pontificate commenced in 1484—a statesman andpatron of letters, who served in the offices of Lord Chancellor and Privy Seal,and deserved still better of his country by founding the University of KingsCollege. We are told that he finished the tower, and covered in the wholeroof with lead ; but that, unfortunately he was cut off ere he completed theprojected erection of a new choir. IVIuch is said also by his enthusiasticbiographer of his gifts to the vestry, reliquary, and treasury—of copes ofwhite linen embroidered with gold,

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