he pillars of the tower are 8m high and ilbert de Moravia (Moray) be- Tthe arches rise to 14m in the centre. came of in Under the central point lay the tomb of St 1222. He moved the seat of his Gilbert until its desecration during the pillage Gdiocese from , in the of 1570. Above, the tower itself rises to a north, to Dornoch, and this is where he height of 37m and contains a bell which dates had his Cathedral built, at his own ex- from 1785. pense. Work started in 1224. t the end of the nave lies the sarcophagus he Church had a nave with side aisles, Aof Sir Richard de Moravia, brother of St. Ttransepts, a quire and a tower supported Gilbert. He was killed during a battle c.1240. by four clusters of pillars built of local It is a fine example of funereal art of the 13th stone. By 1239 it was sufficiently complet- century. The piscina, in the south wall of the ed for it to be consecrated, and receive the quire, indicates that the Cathedral was Roman bones of a previous Bishop, Adam, who had Catholic for 350 years. been assassinated. Bishop Gilbert was the last Scot to be given a place in the Calendar n the west wall of the south transept, near of Saints. Ithe south-west pillars, one can see the lintel of a doorway. In the 19th century a family n 1570 the Church was burnt during a clan crypt was made under the quire for the Dukes Ibattle and it was left with only the four of . clusters of pillars, the tower and the quire. In Some "mortality stones", which depict the 1616 the quire and transepts were restored symbols of death, are found in several walls by Sir Robert Gordon but the nave and side of the church ~ these mortality stones were aisles remained untouched. A wall was built originally found in the ruined nave and have to shut off the ruined nave, and the resulting been incorporated in the walls for historic T-shaped Church was used as the Parish interest. Church of Dornoch, which it still is today. mong the 28 stained-glass windows n 1835-37 the Cathedral was renovated Athere are three in the north wall of the Ithanks to the generosity of Elizabeth, quire which are of great interest to visitors. Duchess of Sutherland. The architect, Wil- They commemorate the steel magnate and liam Burn, demolished the ruined nave and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie who stayed side aisles and rebuilt only the nave. Here it each year at Skibo Castle, 6km from Dor- is only the large west window which is a noch. The organ, which was installed in copy [shorter than the original]. The stone- 1893, was renovated thanks to his generosity work of the ancient Church was covered in in 1908, and then completely rebuilt in 1979 plaster. In 1924 there was further renovation by the generosity of his daughter, Margaret. when the plaster was removed to reveal the ancient beauty of the 13th century stone- he modern stained glass window in the work. Two old pillars of the side aisles were Tsouth wall of the quire was installed in discovered at the same time and one can see 1989 on the occasion of the 750th anniversary them in two niches cut out near the pillars of the consecration of the Cathedral and rep- west of the tower. If the visitor stands here to resents the founder, Bishop Gilbert. It was look at the quire and the transepts, all the consecrated in the presence of H.R.H. stone work to be seen dates from the 13th Charles, Duke of Rothesay. century.

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