Dryburgh Abbey. View of W gable of refectory. Digital image of BW 42.

Description Dryburgh Abbey. View of W gable of refectory. Digital image of BW 42.

Date c. 1912

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 798805

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BW 42

Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in the late 19th century, shows the west gable of the canons' refectory, or dining room, with its wheel window, a rare survival. The marks on the gable below the window show where the roof of the kitchens abutted the refectory. The ivy has been removed since this photograph was taken. Dryburgh Abbey was, like the other Border abbeys, sacked on several occasions by English invaders. It was effectively destroyed in 1545 by English forces under the Earl of Hertford, during the 'Rough Wooing', and the Reformation finished it off. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was buried amongst the ruins of the abbey. Dryburgh Abbey was founded in 1150 by Hugh de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, as a house of the White Canons of the Premonstratensians. This order of religion were much more involved with the secular world than the Cistercians or the Tironensians, at Melrose and Kelso. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Inv. fig. 140

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