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Repository	Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No	SCA/GD/140/68
Title	St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Dumfries
Date	1934
Level	Item
Description	One of Anson’s bleakest yet most striking drawings; a scene dark in tone and execution, the sketch shows a somewhat grim street scene, in which even the sky, formed of smudged and pulled ink, is oppressive; the two towers of the cathedral – the closer one
Admin_History	Built in 1813, the original church building was erected in a simple Grecian style by the architect McCraken. Though noted to be particularly plain in design, the church would undergo a number of additions and improvements in subsequent years. Among the mo
AccessConditions	Open for consultation, some sections closed as they hold personal data subject to the Data Protection Act
PublnNote	McCall, Peter: Some History and St. Andrews (Dumfries, 1991); The Catholic Directory for Scotland 1835

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