Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Cathedrals and Abbeys of Presbyterian Scotland
Scottish History and Literature, has appeared in the columns of the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, usa.
The interest created and expressed in those dealing with our Abbeys and Cathedrals (too often believed to be all in ruins) by its readers suggested the expansion of these sketches into a more detailed and consecutive form. Thus each chapter in the present volume contains in narrative the leading points of interest associated with each building, the treatment throughout being historical rather than architectural.
There are several popular works treating of the Cathedrals and Abbeys of England, but, so far as known, there is no comprehensive edition of our Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, in which the main historical facts, culled from recognised authorities, are presented in a popular form which will appeal to the educated reader who makes no claim to be a specialist.
We owe so much to the Past; we have recovered from the fright of the Reformation; we are now as eager to preserve and restore as were our forefathers to destroy those fine buildings, the heritages of earlier days when simple craftsmen and scholarly churchmen alike laboured with their hands for The Glory of God.
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