User talk:Billreid/Archive 1

Re Edit of Birnie, Moray in List of former cathedrals in GB
Hello Bill, I'm often grateful for edits to the List (gets a bit lonely otherwise), but I'm not keen on your substitution of "Birnie" for my "The building". The kirk is a building, Birnie is a parish, not a building. Do you have a good reason for your substitution? If not, I'll reverse it, along with one or two other edits I have in mind. Happy 2021!! ShropshirePilgrim (talk) 03:01, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello ShropshirePilgrim. Happy 2021 to you as well. Yes, no problem with what you intend to do. I have a problem with the "Name" column though. For example, Birnie Kirk has never been known as St Brendan's Church, St Macher's Cathedral has never been called Cathedral Church of St Macher. Many other named churches have been given artificial names&mdash;Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, St Mary's Cathedral, 	Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence, etc. Why not change the name of this column to Dedication column and just leave it as the saints/holy trinity, etc. In the medieval period they were not named at all but merely referred to as the church of the See, e.g. ecclesia Moravie for Elgin Cathedral.-Bill Reid | (talk) 13:41, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Bill, for your helpful reply. Without digging right now, I got the "names" from various sources, and certainly didn't invent any of them. Are you quite sure they were never called what I have listed under "Name"? But perhaps "Name" isn't quite right, as you suggest. "Official title" may be closer to the truth, though it's really too long. Your helpful "Dedication" is one runner, though it doesn't quite fit the preambles of "Cathedral Church of .... " and similar. How about "Title", short for "Official Title"? Thanks for your interest in this humble List! ShropshirePilgrim (talk) 23:05, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, ShropshirePilgrim. I'll get back to you tomorrow but thinking about it, I think we should perhaps discuss on the list talk page in case someone else wants to chip in. Incidentally, I notice that the beautiful Lincoln Cathedral has been omitted from the list. --Bill Reid | (talk) 17:06, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, Bill. See you there. But not sure what you mean about Lincoln's absence from the List - it's not a Former Cathedral after all! ShropshirePilgrim (talk) 19:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Just about to put the discussion up to the talk page but had to laugh at Lincoln Cathedral! Not sure what I was thinking about&mdash;must have been that when I was researching Elgin Cathedral, I found that Elgin was 'twinned' with Lincoln. By that I mean Elgin wanted to use the constitution of Lincoln as the model for its own, and Lincoln duly obliged. Both cathedrals were in construction at the same time.  Cheers for the prod. --Bill Reid | (talk) 19:35, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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