Dryburgh Abbey.
SC 798816
Description Dryburgh Abbey.
Date c. 1880
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 798816
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BW 444
Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-south-east This view from the south-south-east, taken in about 1880, shows the north wall of the cloister. The gable of the south transept of the abbey church is in the centre, and to the left is part of the north transept. The largest doorway in the wall of the cloister leads into the chapter house. All this is of late 12th-/early 13th-century date. 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.
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