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  • Churches, abbeys and chapels , History

St Conan’s Kirk

June 27, 2019
Nestling by the side of Loch Awe, this extraordinary church was the vision of 19th century architect Walter Douglas Campbell
  • Photography

Windows: Culross Palace

July 31, 2017
Distinctive dormer windows in the roof of Culross Palace
  • Photography

Windows: Dunfermline Abbey

March 09, 2017
The third in my photo-series is this beautiful stained glass window by Douglas Strachan in the old nave of Dunfermline …
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels , History

Kirkstall Abbey – ancient heart of Leeds

October 02, 2011
These ruins of a 12th century Cistercian monastery, founded in a Yorkshire river valley 'remote from the habitation of men', …
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