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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)

Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 · Edinburgh W. Paterson · leaf 81

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supporting pillars are circular with the stunted hard Norman capital, and the arches are semi-circular. The cylindrical shafts of the easternmost arch on either side are adorned by large zigzags.Belonging to the purely Norman department of the architecture, is the strongly marked arcaderepresented… … PALACE, ABBEY AND CULRCIl OF DUNFERMLINE. S HISTORICAL SKETCH. From an early period Dunfermline appears to have been a favourite residence of the ScottishKings. Fordun states that the marriage of Malcolm III. to his sainted Queen, was there cele-brated in 1070, and he mentions it as a rocky spot,…

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