• The Cumbrae Revels

  31/01/2013

  Here’s some pics from last Saturday. I was on the island of Greater Cumbrae at the Cathedral of the Isles to see its two new canons installed. They are the Dean of that diocese – the Very Rev Andrew Swift and the Provost of St John’s Cathedral, Oban the Very Rev Nicola McNelly.

  Here they are:
  

  This is how they process in the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. (This tradition developed due to a history of Viking Raids, I believe)
  

  This is the bishop sporting a slighty twisty lappet.
  

  This is the light fitting that I once again failed to smuggle off the island but which I found myself coveting when I should have been praying.

  

  Andrew Swift, Cathedral of the Isles, Dunoon, lappets, Millport, Nichola McNelly, Oban

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