Bk. VI. Ch. IV. GLASGOW CATHEDRAL. 211 they sometimes take the form of three lancets, united, as shown in Woodcut No. 641, by an imperfect kind of tracery, more in accordance with the simplicity of the building than the more complex form prev- alent in England at the same period. In the south transept, and some of the later additions, there is tracery of considerable elaboration and beauty of design. Gi2. East End of Glasgow Cathedral. Perhaps the most beautiful building in Scotland is, or was, the cathedral of Elgin. The province of Moray, in which it was situated, was so remote that it seems to have been comparatively undis- turbed by the English wars, and the greater part of the building was erected during the Edwardian period, with all the beautiful details of that age. The seat of the see was removed from Spynie to Elgin in the year 1223, and the cathedral commenced contemporaneously with those of Amiens and Salisbury. All that
