Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld And Dowally
Description: Dunkeld Cathedral
Category: A
Date Listed: 5 October 1971
Historic Scotland Building ID: 5631
OS Grid Coordinates: 302393, 742595
Latitude/Longitude: 56.5651, -3.5899
Location: Gutter Lane, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross PH8 0AW
Locality: Dunkeld And Dowally
County: Perth And Kinross
Country: Scotland
Postcode: PH8 0AW
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This building is also a scheduled monument.
Listing Text
Nave ruined, choir in use as parish church, N.W. tower, no
transepts: 260' long. Choir: 4-bay aisleless 103' x 29',
13th cent. altered early 14th cent; interior of parts of N.
wall arcaded, sedilia on S. with cingfoil arches. Re-roofed
1600, renovated 1691, repaired 1762: windows retraceried, new
pinnacles and parapet, 1814-18, Archibald Elliot, archt.
Re-roofed, re-furnished etc., Dunn & Watson, archts., 1908.
Nave 7 bays with aisles, 122' long, 1406-64, S. aisle formerly
vaulted. Circular piers, traceried semi-circular triforium
openings: clerestory. N.W. tower and alterations to W. front
c.1469-80: tower 3-stage, 24' square, 96' high, rib-vaulted
ground floor with bell opening and mural paintings. Pitched
roof replaced by flat 1815. Chapter house: 2-storey on N.
side of choir, c.1450-75. Ground floor vaulted in 2
compartments. Monuments etc: Choir-Celtic cross slab with
sculptured figures; red sandstone cross slab with hollow
rounded angles; effigy of Bishop Sinclair + 1527; effigy of
Wolf of Badenoch (') + 1394; 42nd Highlanders, Steell 1872:
Chapter House - 2 Atholl Monuments 17th cent., 4th Duke,
marble, 1833, etc.: Nave - Bishop Cardeny + 1420, effigy in
segmentally arched recess; Arntully slab, c.1600: Tower -
Pictish stone, incised figure of horseman; Alexander Douglas
graveslab, 1548; coped gravestone.
References:
O.S.A. v. XX p. 418. N.S.A. v. X p. 970. Ecc. Arch. v. III p.28
(il. & plan). Description of the Scenery of Dunkeld and Blair
in Atholl (1823) p. 35. F.C. Eccles in Rentale Dunkeldense.
Scottish Ecclesiological Soc. 1912-13 p. 21 et seqq: Nicholson
and Spooner: Recent English Ecclesiastical Architecture p. 191
(il) Atholl Mss. Plans (Elliot 1814) Blair Castle. Chrons of
Atholl & Tullibardine numerous refs.
Notes:
Choir ecclesiastical in use as such. Chapter House burial
place of Atholl family. Nave & tower guardianship monument.
Guardianship Monument.
Scheduled Monument.
Source: Historic Scotland
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