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The Earl of Perth's Chapel of 1688 at Drummond Castle and the Roman Catholic Architecture of James VII

The Earl of Perth's Chapel of 1688 at Drummond Castle and the Roman Catholic Architecture of... Aonghus MacKechnie From 1685 until December 1688, for the first (and last) time since the Reformation in 1560, Roman Catholicism was officially encouraged among Scotland's elites. This was due to James Stuart, Duke of Albany and York, who became king in 1685 but was forfeited by Parliament in 1689. Architecture played a strong role in that ideological interlude, when the leading architect was the Rome-trained Catholic, Master James Smith. The contract with Smith quoted below for the private Catholic chapel of Lord Chancellor James Drummond Earl of Perth, and first highlighted to historians by John Gifford, illustrates the ascendancy of Counter-Reformation Catholicism in that brief episode within protestant Scotland.1 A C at h o l i c c h a p e l i n D ru m m o n d C a s t l e It is a good question: why, in supposedly dour seventeenth-century Presbyterian Scotland, did a lord chancellor have a private Catholic chapel, and how did he get the country's top architect to design his altar? Surely, dour-mongers all, if we are to believe the rhetoric? The answer derives from the very specific circumstances of the reign of James VII/II, who was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architectural Heritage Edinburgh University Press

The Earl of Perth's Chapel of 1688 at Drummond Castle and the Roman Catholic Architecture of James VII

MacKechnie, Aonghus
Architectural Heritage , Volume 25 (1): 107 – Nov 1, 2014
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Edinburgh University Press
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© The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, 2014
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Historical Studies
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1350-7524
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1755-1641
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10.3366/arch.2014.0056
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Aonghus MacKechnie From 1685 until December 1688, for the first (and last) time since the Reformation in 1560, Roman Catholicism was officially encouraged among Scotland's elites. This was due to James Stuart, Duke of Albany and York, who became king in 1685 but was forfeited by Parliament in 1689. Architecture played a strong role in that ideological interlude, when the leading architect was the Rome-trained Catholic, Master James Smith. The contract with Smith quoted below for the private Catholic chapel of Lord Chancellor James Drummond Earl of Perth, and first highlighted to historians by John Gifford, illustrates the ascendancy of Counter-Reformation Catholicism in that brief episode within protestant Scotland.1 A C at h o l i c c h a p e l i n D ru m m o n d C a s t l e It is a good question: why, in supposedly dour seventeenth-century Presbyterian Scotland, did a lord chancellor have a private Catholic chapel, and how did he get the country's top architect to design his altar? Surely, dour-mongers all, if we are to believe the rhetoric? The answer derives from the very specific circumstances of the reign of James VII/II, who was

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Published: Nov 1, 2014

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