Old Travel Blog Photograph The Screen Cathedral Dunblane Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Screen between the Choir and Nave in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. In the original design of the Cathedral a large screen, probably of timber, would have stood separating the Choir from the Nave. While the screening of the people from the clergy and the sacrament plays no part in the theology of the Reformation, the screen faithfully recalls something of the Cathedral's original appearance. The Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, also sometimes called of Strathearn, until the abolition of bishops after the Scottish Reformation. There are remains of the vaults of the episcopal palace to the south of the cathedral. Technically, it is no longer a cathedral, as there are no bishops in the Church of Scotland, which is a Presbyterian denomination. William Chisholme, the last Catholic bishop of Dunblane in 1561, later became bishop of Vaison in France.



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