By great good fortune six of the stalls of Dunblane Cathedral with their canopies, and several others without canopies, have escaped the destruction which has overtaken almost all the carved woodwork of our ancient Scottish churches. Those preserved here ([Fig. 526]) show some excellent carving.
Fig. 524.—Dunblane Cathedral.
Vesica in West Gable.
Fig. 525.—Dunblane Cathedral. North-West Angle of Nave.
These stalls contain on one of the misereres the arms of the Chisholm family, surmounted by a mitre. Three bishops of this name presided in succession at Dunblane. First, James, eldest son of Edmund Chisholm of Cromlix, who was advanced to this see in 1486. In 1527, by reason of his age, he resigned the bishopric in favour of his half-brother, William Chisholm (second), who was consecrated the same year, and was bishop
Fig. 526.—Dunblane Cathedral. Stalls.