Recent reviews Dornoch
[LovesTravel, 19/03/2011] I've visited Dornoch Cathedral twice: once in 1998, during my first trip to Scotland, and again in 2008, when Himself and Yours Truly took friends on a tour of the Highlands. On both occasions, I was sturck by how small this cathedral seems when compared to its counterparts further south. It has a simplicity and compactness that other cathedrals lack.
This tiny Gothic treasure was consecrated as the cathedral church of the diocese of Caithness in 1239. Even now, Caithness is a large sparsely populated region, so a larger church clearly was not needed. The building was largely destroye
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