The site of Dunblane Cathedral was founded around the seventh century by or for Saint Blane. The lower four stories of the tower date from about 1100, most of the building is mainly thirteenth century, and the upper two stories of the tower were added around 1500. The article calls the style mostly Gothic.
The cathedral has fifteenth-century choir stalls with carved misericords and the largest surviving collection of medieval Scottish church woodwork after King's College Chapel in Aberdeen. The nave roof had fallen in by about 1600.
Robert Rowand Anderson restored it from 1889 to 1893, and Robert Lorimer completed the work in 1912. It is a Church of Scotland parish church, cared for by Historic Scotland, and a Category A listed building.
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