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SCA - Scottish Catholic Archives
GD - Gifts and Deposits
140 - Drawings by Peter Anson
Repository
Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No
SCA/GD/140/41
Title
Church of St. Mary and St. Finnan, Glenfinnan
Date
[c 1934]
Level
Item
Description
The Gothic edifice at Glenfinnan is dark in tone and execution; the foreground occupied by tufts of grass suggested by ink washes, Anson sets the church back into a brooding forest of darkly ink-washed trees; the large Gothic window is clearly defined, as
Physical Description
Pen and ink
Admin_History
This church, designed by Edward Welby Pugin, was opened in 1873 by the Macdonalds of Glenaladale and is in the Gothic style. [from Anson’s Pilgrim’s Sketch Book notes – page pasted to back of drawing] Grade B listed on 5 Oct 1971. Signed with an obscured
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PublnNote
The Catholic Directory for Scotland 1877
Album amicorum of George Strachan
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