Oblique aerial view of Crossraguel Abbey.
SC 1555713
Description Oblique aerial view of Crossraguel Abbey.
Date 1972
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number SC 1555713
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AY 4093 CN
Scope and Content Aerial view of Crossraguel Abbey, South Ayrshire This aerial view from the east-south-east was taken in 1972, and shows the abbot's house and tower-house at the bottom. The white roofs in the middle cover the main range of monks' accommodation, which had the dormitory on the upper floor. The cloister is beyond this range, and the church is to the right. The last monks of Crossraguel Abbey were still living there in 1592, and must have been among the last pre-Reformation monks in Scotland. Ralegh Radford identified some small cells, on the left in this view, as 'sheltered housing' for old men not in orders who lived in the abbey as paying guests, known as corrodiars. Crossraguel Abbey was founded in 1244 by monks from the Cluniac Abbey of Paisley, after Paisley had tried to hold on to land given by Earl Duncan of Carrick in about 1200. It was never a large or particularly prosperous abbey, but the remains are unusually complete. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 6399/CN/A2
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