. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Kirkwall Cathedral. Choir looking east. interest. It was originally built by Earl Eognvald in 1138, and dedi-cated to his uncle Earl Magnus, Avho was slain in Egilsay in 1116, andafterwards canonized. The building is small, but so beautifully pro-portioned that it creates in the mind a false impression of size. It is218 feet in length, and measures across aisles and nave 45 feet. Its PROCEEDINGS. 289 narrowness lends to its appearance of height. It measures 89 feet acrossthe transepts, and has a triforum and clerestory for its whole len
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Kirkwall Cathedral. Choir looking east. interest. It was originally built by Earl Eognvald in 1138, and dedi-cated to his uncle Earl Magnus, Avho was slain in Egilsay in 1116, andafterwards canonized. The building is small, but so beautifully pro-portioned that it creates in the mind a false impression of size. It is218 feet in length, and measures across aisles and nave 45 feet. Its PROCEEDINGS. 289 narrowness lends to its appearance of height. It measures 89 feet acrossthe transepts, and has a triforum and clerestory for its whole length oneach side, as well as round the transepts. There are chapels attachedto the east side of both transepts. The body of King Haco lay in state. Kirkwall Cathedral. The Crossing and South Transept. here, and many earls and bishops have been interred within its walls,but few records of their resting-places are now preserved. The centreof the building is the oldest, but by some such artifice as re-casing,secondary work with pointed arches, having round-headed ones abovethem, is to be seen as in the arching of the principal piers supporting the
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