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ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.
Part II.
CHAPTER IY.
ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.
CONTENTS.
Afflnities of Style—Early Specimens—Cathedral of Glasgow—Elgin—Melrose—.
Other Churches—Monasteries.
CHR0N0LQ6Y.
DATES.
DATES.
Malcolm Canmore. Accession
A.D. 1057
David II. Accession
. . . A.D. 1329
David I. .
. 1124
Robert-II., Stuart ,,
.... 1371
William the Lion ,, . .
. 1165
James I. „
.... 1406
John Baliol „
. 1292
Mary Queen of Scots ,,
.... 1542
Robert Brnce ,, . .
. 1306
There are few countries in
the world in respect to whose
architecture
it is so difficult to write anything like a connected narrative as it is
regarding that of Scotland. The difhculty does not arise from the pau-
city of examples, or from their not having been sufficiently examined
or edited, but from the circumstance of the art not being indigenous.
No one who knows anything of the ethnography of art would suspect
the people who now inhabit the lowlands of Scotland of inventing any
form of architecture, or of feeling much sympathy with it when intro-
cluced from abroad. It may have been that the Celtic element was
more predominant in the country during the Middle Ages, and that the
Teutonic race only came to the surface with the Reformation, when
they showed their national characteristic in their readiness to destroy
what they could not build. If this were not so, it must have been
that their priests were strangers, who brought their arts with them
and practised them for their own satisfaction, in despite of the feelings
of their flocks.
Briefly, the outline of Scotland’s architectural story seems to be
this. Till the time of the wars of the Edwards, the boundary line
between the styles on either side of the border cannot be very clearly
defined. In Scotland the forms were ruder and bolder than in the
South, but were still the same in all essential respects.
After the days of Wallace and of Bruce, hatred of the English
threw the Scotch into the arms of France. Instead of the Perpen-
dicülar style of the South, we find an increasing tendency to copy the
ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.
Part II.
CHAPTER IY.
ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.
CONTENTS.
Afflnities of Style—Early Specimens—Cathedral of Glasgow—Elgin—Melrose—.
Other Churches—Monasteries.
CHR0N0LQ6Y.
DATES.
DATES.
Malcolm Canmore. Accession
A.D. 1057
David II. Accession
. . . A.D. 1329
David I. .
. 1124
Robert-II., Stuart ,,
.... 1371
William the Lion ,, . .
. 1165
James I. „
.... 1406
John Baliol „
. 1292
Mary Queen of Scots ,,
.... 1542
Robert Brnce ,, . .
. 1306
There are few countries in
the world in respect to whose
architecture
it is so difficult to write anything like a connected narrative as it is
regarding that of Scotland. The difhculty does not arise from the pau-
city of examples, or from their not having been sufficiently examined
or edited, but from the circumstance of the art not being indigenous.
No one who knows anything of the ethnography of art would suspect
the people who now inhabit the lowlands of Scotland of inventing any
form of architecture, or of feeling much sympathy with it when intro-
cluced from abroad. It may have been that the Celtic element was
more predominant in the country during the Middle Ages, and that the
Teutonic race only came to the surface with the Reformation, when
they showed their national characteristic in their readiness to destroy
what they could not build. If this were not so, it must have been
that their priests were strangers, who brought their arts with them
and practised them for their own satisfaction, in despite of the feelings
of their flocks.
Briefly, the outline of Scotland’s architectural story seems to be
this. Till the time of the wars of the Edwards, the boundary line
between the styles on either side of the border cannot be very clearly
defined. In Scotland the forms were ruder and bolder than in the
South, but were still the same in all essential respects.
After the days of Wallace and of Bruce, hatred of the English
threw the Scotch into the arms of France. Instead of the Perpen-
dicülar style of the South, we find an increasing tendency to copy the