Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . M urlJ. EAST END OF CATHEDRAL. S. RULE S. ture of S. Rule, the same gentleman and I both arrived at the conclusion, thatthe Tower had originally stood alone (for however short a time); that it was thensolid from the base to the summit, with the exception of a low Door on the southside, and the Windows near the top. Such a lofty beautifully-proportioned Towercould never have been designed to stand in connexion with a Chapel of suchdimensions. I would therefore humbly suggest, upon the well-founded supposi-tion that the Tower was a solid Campanile, that Bi
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . M urlJ. EAST END OF CATHEDRAL. S. RULE S. ture of S. Rule, the same gentleman and I both arrived at the conclusion, thatthe Tower had originally stood alone (for however short a time); that it was thensolid from the base to the summit, with the exception of a low Door on the southside, and the Windows near the top. Such a lofty beautifully-proportioned Towercould never have been designed to stand in connexion with a Chapel of suchdimensions. I would therefore humbly suggest, upon the well-founded supposi-tion that the Tower was a solid Campanile, that Bishop Robert, the founder ofthe Priory of Canons Regular of St. Andrews about 1144, found the loftyCampanile too good a thing for that purpose only, and having boldly conceivedthe design, caused the east and west walls of the Tower to be slapped through,and bearing arches introduced to support the mass of walls left above them,designing to have a Nave on the west side and a Choir with Apse on the east, 94 THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. connected
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