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Parhold as the Act dicceto Arry's 1794 by Peter Maxel Engraver No3. Bridane Speet key" Harden

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PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR. LENOX, AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

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REMAINS of the CATHEDRAL of S ANDREWS.

Published na the dot dirvono Peb211783 by Peter Mareli Engraver N32. Bridtyor Streit, Covent Garden.

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CATHEDRAL of St. ANDREW's

FTER paffing the ferry from Leith to Kinghorn there is a pleasant ride of 30 miles on a turnpike road to St. Andrew's. This city lies on a small rifing ground along the sea coaft. It is not fituated on the great poft road to the north, and, confequently, does not fo readily fall under the obfervation of travellers. In approaching the city, at the distance of a mile, it makes an appearance fo grand and beautiful, that the artift is tempted to light from his horfe, and draw. Numerous towers and spires give it an air of vaft magnificence, and the fituation renders the prospect altogether uncommonly agreeable.

UPON entering the gate, the whole city appears one extenfive ruin, and affords numberless fubjects to exercise the talents of the artift. The cathedral certainly attracts first attention. The weft view takes in the whole. It is delineated in Mr. Pennant's Tour. The fouth fide affords two good views; the one from the north is given in this plate. The eaft end, together with the chapel of St. Regulus, likewise yields materials for two excellent drawings.

CARDINAL BEATON's caftle is also a good fubje&t. The front looking to the land gives a proper fpecimen of the building; and the fide fhews the extent of the ruin scattered all over the promontory. The oppofite hills on the other fide of the Firth come into these views, and tend greatly to augment their picturesque and beautiful appearance.

BESIDES the above, St. Andrew's contains an abundance of other very deserving fubjects.

THE old College is entirely of Gothic structure: the new is built in a plain modern ftyle.

THIS Cathedral bears a ftriking resemblance to that of Elgin. The towers in the weft end have been as high, but not fo huge and maffy: The eaft end is not fo elegantly finished, and the whole is less decorated and gorgeous. At Elgin, however, there is no building to vie with the lofty chapel of St. Regulus. It, though within the walls, ftands detached from the great body of the building, and feems, fome how, out of place, as it tends in no degree to complete the plan of the cathedral. The whole of the east end ftands tolerably complete, but none of the fide walls remain adjoining to it. Only the part of the fouth fide is undemolished which unites with the weft end. The one tower of the weft end continues very entire in conjunction with the grand door of the church; but the other is totally erased.

In the middle of the town ftands a neat little building of Gothic structure, called Black Friars Chapel. A fet of huts are built leaning to its walls. It is of an octagon form, with an arched or vaulted roof, and has a fine arched window in every fide. It seems to be an exact pattern of the Chapter-house at Elgin Cathedral. A proposal was made, fome years ago, to fit it up, and convert it into an English chapel. But there is little chance that the scheme will take place, as it would cost as much to repair the old chapel as to build a new one.

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CARDINAL BEATON's Caftle is fituated, north of the cathedral, on a ridge of rocks projecting into the fea, and feems to have been a fortrefs capable of good defence. The front, which communicates by a kind of bridge with the land, is the only part in the smallest degree entire: the reft is a heap of ruins; fome large masses scattered along the cliffs, others lying in the fea. The fragments of this gorgeous edifice bear ample teftimony that it has been one of the moft fuperb in its own time.

In this Caftle the celebrated Cardinal was murdered on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1546.

THE Cathedral is faid to have been founded before the end of the eleventh century, but was not completed until the thirteenth. Its length from eaft to weft has been about three hundred and feventy feet. The caftle and the chapel of St. Regulus are mentioned as buildings of a ftill older date. The tower belonging to the chapel is a square, on each fide about twenty feet broad, and upwards of an hundred high. The magiftrates of St. Andrew's have lately given it a thorough repair, and carried a stone ftair-cafe up to its top.

In the town church, a magnificent white marble monument is raised to the memory of Archbishop Sharp, who was cruelly put to death a few miles from St. Andrew's in the year 1675. His effigy, as large as life, is placed between two Corinthian columns. He is dreffed in his facred robes, kneeling on a cufhion, with a book open before him. Below, the manner of his death is reprefented in exquifite workmanship. Some of the affaffins in the very act of committing the murder, are dragging the prelate out of his coach; others, on horfeback, are feeding their eyes, looking towards the horrid fpectacle. The Bishop's daughter, who had been with him in the coach, is reprefented on the ground fainting in the arms of two fupporters.

ST. ANDREW's, in the days of epifcopacy, was the fee of an archbishop, who held the primacy of all Scotland.

THREE fpacious grafs-grown ftreets, almost parallel, concentre in the area before the cathedral, and are croffed at right angles by feveral lanes.

THE fituation of the univerfity is peculiarly favourable to fcience, as there is nothing near to draw off the attention of the ftudents, and as there are many scenes nobly calculated to infpire wisdom and awaken genius.

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