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A change in the weather got us out for an over-due walk with the sun catching the trees looking twords the village of Bridge of Allan from Dunblane. The road following the old oaks and beech trees is "Baxter's Loan" and currently under threat from developers. (A certain UK tennis player's mother, no less...)
The River Allan runs through the tiny "City" of Dunblane. (On certain days of the month it used to turn different colours due to the fabric dying mill that was upstream of this shot, so it wasn't unusual to see the river running green or blue)
Dunblane Cathedral is in the background top right and the small viaduct carries trains going to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen.
At the Scouring Burn in Dunblane on a cold day.
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Dunblane Cathedral is the larger of the two Church of Scotland parish churches serving Dunblane, near the city of Stirling, in central Scotland.
The lower half of the tower is pre-Romanesque from the 11th century, and was originally free-standing, with an upper part added in the 15th century. Most of the rest of the building is Gothic, from the 13th century. The building was restored from 1889 to 1893.
The church is dedicated to the 6th century saint, St Blane, and this gives its name to the settlement: dunblane meaning hill of St Blane. The cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, until the abolition of bishops after the Glorious Revolution in 1689.
Dunblane Cathedral dates back to the 12th century, most of what stands being constructed during the bishopric of Clement in the 13th century. Today the building is maintained by Historic Scotland.
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The beautiful interior of Dunblane Cathedral, near Stirling, Scotland. The Cathedral is a fascinating building that stands on a site that has been sacred for well over 1,000 years. Its beautiful Gothic exterior, conserved by a 19th-century restoration, hides a past of neglect and renewal.
DUNBLANE IT WAS RAINING ANYWAY-BUT DIDN'T REALLY SHOW UP SO I PHOTOSHOPPED IT MORE.NOT SURE IF I DID RIGHT THING AS ORIGINAL WAS SHARPER AND CLEARER -BUT THIS GAVE MORE THE MOOD.
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Dunblane Cathedral, built upon a Christian site first established by Saint Blane around the year 600, is one of the few surviving medieval churches in Scotland. It is home to a vibrant and welcoming Church of Scotland congregation of around 1,000 members and serves the parish of Dunblane and its surroundings.
Christianity was first established in Dunblane by followers of Saint Blane around the year 602.
Dunblane Cathedral dates back to the 12th century, most of what stands being constructed during the bishopric of Clement in the 13th century. Today the building is maintained by Historic Scotland as a church of the Church of Scotland.
A cathedral in the Church of Scotland, which is presbyterian in constitution, is simply a parish church like any other, but the Church of Scotland continues to refer to Dunblane, like its other medieval cathedral churches, as "Cathedral" thus honouring their role in the development of the Christian witness throughout Scotland's history.
The Roman Catholic Bishopric was founded by the Earl of Strathearn, probably about 1150 (although there were Celtic or Culdee Bishops before this date); but the first Roman Bishops found very little in the way of buildings and were not able to accomplish much.
When Clement, a Dominican Friar, was appointed Bishop in 1233, he probably found standing only the Tower (four lower storeys of the present Tower) and a church attached to the tower, but incomplete. This Church he removed in order to build a larger. He complained to the Pope that the Cathedral was largely unbuilt, that he had no place to lay his head, and insufficient revenues to support a Bishopric, and that the services were conducted by a rural chaplain only. The Pope in 1237 authorised the Bishops of Glasgow and of Dunkeld to visit Dunblane, and, if they saw fit, to give to the Bishop of Dunblane a fourth of the tithes of the churches of the diocese, so that he might build his Cathedral and organise his diocese; and with these monies Clement, before he died in 1258, was able to build the Lady Chapel and most of the Cathedral largely as it now stands. For the next 300 years until the Reformation the Cathedral was gradually filled with more and more elaborate furnishings.
In 1560 the Church of Scotland became reformed or protestant. The use of the Cathedral was now drastically altered and the congregation needed only the Choir for use as the parish Church. The roof of the Nave fell in towards the end of the 16th century and the Nave remained roofless for 300 years, during which the congregation worshipped in the Choir.
In 1889 a great restoration of the whole Cathedral was begun under the guidance of Sir Rowand Anderson, a leading Scottish architect, when the Nave was re-roofed and public worship restored in it in 1893.
A further restoration of the Choir was carried out under another noted Scottish architect, Sir Robert Lorimer, in 1914.
Some of the early Parts of the Cathedral date to the 13th Century.
Although quite small ,as Cathedral's go,,It's an Impressive Structure.
It's still a working Church and is usually open to the public.
Dunblane St., Cowcaddens, Glasgow, GB (24.5.26). Snapseed edit. www.architectureglasgow.co.uk/oldcity.orient.html
The Allan Water is a river in central Scotland. Rising in the Ochil Hills, it runs through Strathallan to Dunblane and Bridge of Allan before joining the River Forth.
William Stirling (Dunblane), architect, 1816-17, Allan Johnstone, contractor; porch addition, 1859. Classical gentlemen's club. Dominating, tall, 6-stage, square tower with spire flanked by 3-storey, 4-bay curved facades. Ashlar, rusticated and painted at ground. Cill band, eaves band, string course, projecting cills. 6-stage tower divided by moulded cornices, diminishing in height as they rise. 5th stage has clock face. Uppermost stage surmounted by circular drum incorporating Tuscan columns, rising to octagonal spire topped by cockerel weathervane. External angles of towers splayed. Adjoined porch at ground surmounted by statue of William Wallace by Handyside Ritchie, sculptor; domed ashlar construction with 3 round-arched openings.
Sited prominently as a terminal feature to King Street, its curved sides leading off into Spittal and Baker Streets behind. The Athenaeum was built on the site of the former meat market. It served originally as a Library and meeting house for the burgh's merchants, with shops at ground.