The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 46
solute, but therelative want of material. There is abundance of granite in the district ;but, at the time when the college was built, it was not considered capableof being applied to decoration, though it had been so used a century or twoearlier, and has been very richly worked within the past few… … KINGS COLLEGE CHAPEL-INTERIOR ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND I5 on the spot made the Aberdeen workmen less capable of its decoration thanthose who raised Roslin or Melrose. The general state of the preservation of this fine carved work iscreditable to the district when it is remembered that the edifice…
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