Oblique aerial view centred on Jedburgh Abbey.

Description Oblique aerial view centred on Jedburgh Abbey.

Date 8/1968

Collection John Dewar

Catalogue Number SC 1550557

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of RX 3817

Scope and Content Aerial view of Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders This aerial view from the north-north-east, taken in 1968, shows the abbey church, with its tower, and the roofed north transept. Beyond the church are the foundations of the domestic buildings, with the cloister adjoining the nave. The street beyond the exposed foundations has since been closed, and the site excavated. Jedburgh was less badly treated than the other Border abbey churches in the English raids of the later Middle Ages. After the Reformation the transepts and crossing became the parish church, and in 1671 this moved into the nave. The vault of the crossing collapsed in 1743. Jedburgh Abbey was founded on the site of a 9th-century church in about 1138, when Augustinian Canons were brought over from France. The choir, crossing and transepts of the abbey church were complete by 1174. The nave had been built by 1220, and the original east end had been reconstructed by 1220. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 5054/3

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