Oblique aerial view of Arbroath Abbey.
AN 4598 CN
Description Oblique aerial view of Arbroath Abbey.
Date 9/1970
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number AN 4598 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1547255
Scope and Content Aerial view of Arbroath Abbey, Angus This view from the east-south-east, taken in 1970, shows Arbroath Abbey, with the abbey church in the centre, and the foundations of the domestic ranges on the left. In the right foreground are the choir and south transept, with the early 14th-century sacristy projecting from the south side of the choir. Arbroath Abbey is particularly famous as the place where the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. This was a stated case made to the Pope by the barons and other leaders of Scottish society as to why the Scots should be free from English domination. Arbroath Abbey was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion. It was staffed by monks of the Tironensian order from Kelso Abbey, the first Scots abbey of this order, which originated in 1109 at Tiron, near Chartres, in France. The surviving ruined church dates largely from the late 12th and early 13th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
External Reference 5858/CN/2D/5
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