Fig. 602.—St. Mungo’s Cathedral. Rood Screen and Entrance to Choir and Lower Church.
The sacristy contains, as shown in the sketch (see [Fig. 600]), stone built projecting cupboards and a large fireplace. The arms of Bishop Cameron on the mantel above the latter contain an example of how heraldry and architecture may be made to work together; one of the members of the cornice over the fireplace being continued across the shield, so as to form one of the fesses of the Cameron coat. A wide wheel stair close to the entrance connects the chapter house and the vestry above. A shield containing a bull’s head, the arms of Bishop Turnbull, is inserted in the outside of the west wall, near the top. The wing may have been completed by that prelate.
Fig. 603.—St. Mungo’s Cathedral.
Archbishop Blackadder’s Arms on Altar.
Mr. Honeyman[69] conjectures that the Rood screen ([Fig. 602]) which is erected between the eastern piers of the central tower was built by Bishop Cameron. It contains a staircase in the space in the north side, and in the opposite side are cupboards for containing church vestments. In front of the screen there are two fine stone altars, that on the south side being known as the altar of St. Mary of Pity, and that on the north side as the altar of the Holy Cross. The arms and initials of Archbishop Blackadder ([Fig. 603]) are carved on the ends of both of these altars.