The romantic ruins of Elgin Cathedral in Moray Inverness never fail to rouse up the past. Founded 1224 & suffering repeated destructive acts of fire and violence, it succumbed to the Scottish Reformation of 1560 and began to collapse. Its jagged yet pleasing remains still betray its epitaph as ‘The Lantern of the North’, & here we marvel at several of its treasures, each captured in ink back in the mid-1800s. They include its Chapter House, the majestic east windows, dwarfed only by their West End rival, and its evocative Choir. Now very much a tourist attraction, @histenvscot highlight other gems to be seen: such as Scotland’s tallest grave, some rare Pictish art and a larger than life bishop in stone! PS: As a macabre aside – a headstone in the graveyard long bore the name of a man still living man, ‘predicting’ his death seven years hence. The inscription was added to the grave of Mr Davies’ late mother, seemingly to secure his right to be interred in a cemetery which by then had ceased to be open save for illustrious families. He apparently insisted he occupied the spot only once he had died – and the actual date duly inscribed!
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