26 VIII 1773
8 IX 2013
8 IX 2013
ELGIN
The lantern of the north burns dimly. Destroyed by the Wolf of Badenoch, it was restored and then, according to Johnson, for whom the Scottish reformation could do no right, “suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference”. Johnson bewailed the mores which maintained sacred monuments, such as the tumbledown cathedral, so poorly.
SONG
poplar
SILENCE
choir
It was hard for us to see a preferable outcome in renewal, where it takes the form of Elgin’s Bible garden, where fine planting is ruined by ludicrous, flaking biblical worthies which seem moulded from dough. Cover them up, we say, cover them up, quickly!
Bibliography
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cathedral
The lantern of the north burns dimly. Destroyed by the Wolf of Badenoch, it was restored and then, according to Johnson, for whom the Scottish reformation could do no right, “suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference”. Johnson bewailed the mores which maintained sacred monuments, such as the tumbledown cathedral, so poorly.
SONG
poplar
SILENCE
choir
It was hard for us to see a preferable outcome in renewal, where it takes the form of Elgin’s Bible garden, where fine planting is ruined by ludicrous, flaking biblical worthies which seem moulded from dough. Cover them up, we say, cover them up, quickly!
photo by Karen V Bryan
Cramond, William, The Records of Elgin (1903)
Donaldson, Gordon, The Scottish Reformation (1960)