Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 . with the Bishops house, and of the Eastend are here inserted. It was built by Uovnoald ^ Count ofOrkney in 1138 and seems to have been designed and firstexecuted near to a Greek Cross entirely in the Saxon Style ;The Nave or body now consisting of Ave arches on each side ; ^ Cuithes or Cuths. - It is curious that wc should have to look to the distant Orkneys, and tothe work of an alien people, for the best preserved example of the Romanesquein Scotland. The Cathedral of St. Magnus, designed by the Norwegian Kol,and commenced by Earl Rognvald in 1137, contai
Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 . with the Bishops house, and of the Eastend are here inserted. It was built by Uovnoald ^ Count ofOrkney in 1138 and seems to have been designed and firstexecuted near to a Greek Cross entirely in the Saxon Style ;The Nave or body now consisting of Ave arches on each side ; ^ Cuithes or Cuths. - It is curious that wc should have to look to the distant Orkneys, and tothe work of an alien people, for the best preserved example of the Romanesquein Scotland. The Cathedral of St. Magnus, designed by the Norwegian Kol,and commenced by Earl Rognvald in 1137, contains the greatest amount ofNorman work of any building in Scotland, and in its internal aspect, accordingto Mr. Muir, is nowhere ecjualled by any interior in Scotland.—AndersonsScot, in Early Christian Times, 1S81, p. 29. See Tudors Orkneys and Shet-land, p. 233. Sir Henry E. L. Drydens Description of the Church dedicatedto St. Magnus, and the Bishops Palace. ^ Rognvald. .See Orkneyinga Saga. K U() Torii iiiK()r(;ii Scotland, ao V •a crt U ?<« o -ac SB o KIllKW ALL. Ul The Choir only of three, one of tlie piUars in the (hoir on eachside is round with an ()cta<i()n j)hun Capital, the other scjuarewith a semicircular pilaster to the West, and there wjis a largepier for about the space of one arch to the East, to which j)ro-bably a Skreen w;t^ built between the Altar and the isle, wliich
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