The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 198
ut the church of Leuchars, though nowbut fragmentary, has originally been a nobler edifice. Indeed, there are fewfiner specimens of pure Norman work than the semicircular apse, with its twoarcades, the upper one having the richness of its effect increased by square piersbetween the pillars. The… … 332 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL the fantastic stone-cutter has specially indulged in, are a rams head with its horns,and a muzzled bear—a phenomenon but rarely seen, one would think, inScotland in the twelfth century. It is easy to notice on the wall traces of theoriginal height of the apse.…
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