St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh

A couple of days ago, baldeagle blipped the Refectory at Chester Cathedral, and afterwards told me that the window tracery was the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. By concidence, my blip today is of work by his grandfather, Sir George Gilbert Scott.

This is St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. This morning I was at a meeting just across the road and took a chance to grab this photo. The thing about cathedrals in town is that they are quite difficult to get comprehensive shots of with a standard lens - a wide angle would be needed to do this justice.

In 1689, following the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterianism was restored in place of episcopacy in the national Church of Scotland. St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, as it then was, became Presbyterian, resulting in Episcopalians being left without a cathedral in Edinburgh. This cathedral had its foundation stone was laid on May 21, 1874 by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, whose family had been supportive of Scottish Episcopacy over the previous hundred years. It is the biggest ecclesiastical building in Scotland.

Meanwhile, this was the road outside in the morning light.

Bizarrely, I discover that schlimm took the same building this morning with an entirely different slant . She took this about an hour and a half later, and neither of us knew that it was a blip-snap!