. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. y-Jiii|i Dunkinty 28 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT At the north-east corner we have the ruins of the BISHOPS PALACE OR TOWN HOUSE sometimes called Dunfermline House—said to be one of the finest speci-mens of fifteenth century domestic architecture existing. (The keysare to be had at the Burgh Surveyors office.) Previous to the erectionof the Cathedral at Elgin the provincial Bishops resided at Birnie, atSpynie, and at Kinneddar. We do not know in what year the BishopsPalace in the College of Elgin was built, but we may
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. y-Jiii|i Dunkinty 28 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT At the north-east corner we have the ruins of the BISHOPS PALACE OR TOWN HOUSE sometimes called Dunfermline House—said to be one of the finest speci-mens of fifteenth century domestic architecture existing. (The keysare to be had at the Burgh Surveyors office.) Previous to the erectionof the Cathedral at Elgin the provincial Bishops resided at Birnie, atSpynie, and at Kinneddar. We do not know in what year the BishopsPalace in the College of Elgin was built, but we may safely assume thatwhen the Cathedral and the College of Canons were translated fromSpynie about 1224 some sort of residence near the Cathedral Church ofElgin would be erected for the Bishops use. The building hadoriginally been of small size, and is supposed to have become a moreimposing structure about the beginning of the fifteenth century, itbeing a more convenient residence for the Bishop while actively engagedin rebuilding the Cathedral after its destruction by the Wolf ofBadenoch. We le
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