Blick auf N Inside St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Schottland, Großbritannien, zeigt den zentralen Pier des 15., sechseckigen, rippengewölbten Brunnenhauses.
3712 x 4961 px | 31,4 x 42 cm | 12,4 x 16,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
12. November 1992
Ort:
St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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View N inside St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, showing the central pier of the hexagonal, rib- vaulted well house. Built around 1477 on the orders of James III, over the well-shrine of St Triduana (Tredwell), a Pictish saint who sent her eyes to a local prince who had desired her because of their lustrous beauty. Her shrine had been a place of pilgrimage from much earlier times, the water renowned for curing eye complaints. Originally built as two vaulted storeys, the upper chapel & adjoining church were taken down on the orders of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland who declared on 21 December 1560 that: 'as a monument of idolatrie, be raysit and utterlie castin down and destroyed.' The well-house is partly underground, originally the spring water came up to the level of the stone benches around the walls forming a bathing pool. The rib vaulting is supported by wall shafts & a central pier made of clustered shafts & fillets with a foliated capital.
