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Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Church architecture Architecture Castles
Publisher: London, Published by the author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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duty ; but, once set on the art of destruction, carried it out as far as their tastes andthe occasion induced them, The Cathedi-al and the choir, says the author of the StatisticalAccount^ were completely sacked. The windows were smashed, and the doors torn from theirhinges. For the credit of the mob, it does not appear from the walls that fire had ever beenapplied as one of their engines of destruction. The edifice must have suffered further cala-mities in the Highland wars of the Revolution. When the troops of Claverhouse, victorious, butwithout their leader, marched southwards from Killiecrankie, they encountered the Cameronians atDunkeld, where a fierce conflict naturally ensued between bodies who so cordially detested eachother. The tower of the Cathedral was fortified and defended, while the inhabitants of the viilaarefound refuge in the Church. It was the only edifice in Dunkeld then saved from absolute destruc-tion by fire.t • New Stat. Account—Perthshire, 97 t lb.. 974. m
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