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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
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had the chance to outlive all his brethren of his order, and all the bishops likewise in England,who had been possessed of sees before the Revolution; so that he had much respect paid him, notonly by the clergy of his own communion, but all the laity also of both nations.* At the Reformation the edifice was divided into compartments, each forming a separate placeof worship. One of these, forming part of the north transept, and known by the singularname of Haddos Hole, because Sir George Gordon of Haddo was there imprisoned for sometime before his execution in 1644, was not opened as a place of worship until the year 1699.Before the late alterations brought the fabric into a symmetrical form, the various chapelsmentioned above were grouped in a longitudinal mass along the south side, and various smalledifices called the Crames, used chiefly as shops, were attached to their walls, as similar buildingsstill are to the exterior of the large churches in Belgium. * Keiths Cataldgue, p. 64.
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