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"The great relic of antiquity in this parish is the Cathedral. Date of its erection uncertain, possibly 1140, in the reign of David I. None of the Diocesan records are known to exist. The nave is 130 feet by 58. It was unroofed probably at the Reformation. The choir which is the parish church is 80 feet by 30. There were no transepts. The tower is 128 feet high, and seems, from its three different styles of Architecture, to have been erected in three successive periods. Probably a church with a tower, both in the earliest style, was afterwards enlarged into the nave, and had the choir added at a subsequent period. Some of the Prebend stalls, in curiously carved oak, are placed in the lobby of the parish church, and the original Popish roof is still on the choir." Removed in 1851 and a new plain roof supplied. " The windows of the choir were renewed at considerable expense in the ornamental Gothic style in 1819, and the interior having been then repaired at the instance of the Earl of Kinnoul, the whole appearance of the parish church is striking and elegant".

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