Tour Scotland Photograph John Stirling Memorial Dunblane

Tour Scotland photograph of the John Stirling Memorial in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. John Stirling, 7th of Kippendavie, Perthshire, Laird of Kippenross House, was descended from a noble Scottish family. Eldest son of Patrick Stirling, Esq., and Catherine Georgina Wedderburn. He married Catherine Mary Wellings, daughter of Reverend. John Wellings and Mary Wedderburn, on 8 August 1839, in Brighton, Sessex, England. They had three sons and one daughter. He died at Kippenross House, near Dunblane, on 27 July 1882.

This distinguished surname is of early medieval Scottish origin, and is a locational name from the historic city of Stirling, in the vicinity of which several famous battles; including Bannockburn in 1314, were fought. Early examples of the surname include: Peter de Striuelin who witnessed a gift of the church of Karreden to the Abbey of Holyrood, in Edinburgh in 1158; Thomas de Striuelyn, archdeacon of Glasgow in 1228, and Sir John Stirling, who swore fealty in 1291.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Celtic Cross Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of of a Celtic Cross in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. Preserved within the pillared nave are two early Christian stones, a cross-slab and a possible architectual frieze, survivals from an earlier early medieval church on the same site, founded or dedicated to St Blane whose name is commemorated in the name of the town.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Pulpit Carvings Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of some of the wood carvings on the Pulpi in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. Dunblane has the largest surviving collection of medieval Scottish ecclesiastical woodwork after King's College Chapel, Aberdeen.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Nave Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the Nave in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. This Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, 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. It contains the graves of Margaret Drummond of Stobhall, a mistress of King James IV of Scotland and her two sisters, all said to have been poisoned.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Angel Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of a wood carving of an Angel in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The carving was designed by Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, born 4 November 1864, died 13 September 1929, who was a prolific Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, for new work in Scots Baronial and Gothic Revival styles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts movement. Lorimer was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Lorimer, who was Regius Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University from 1862 to 1890. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and later at Edinburgh University. He was part of a gifted family, being the younger brother of painter John Henry Lorimer, and father to the sculptor Hew Lorimer. In 1878 the Lorimer family acquired the lease of Kellie Castle in Fife and began its restoration for use as a holiday home.



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