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Oblique aerial view centred on Jedburgh Abbey.
RX 3816
Description Oblique aerial view centred on Jedburgh Abbey.
Date 8/1968
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number RX 3816
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1550556
Scope and Content Aerial view of Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders This aerial view from the east-south-east, taken in 1968, shows the abbey church in the centre, with the remains of the presbytery (chancel) at the bottom end. To the left of the church is the cloister, with the foundations of the domestic ranges round it. The road to the left of the monastic buildings has since been removed 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 move 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 5054/2
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