Iona, Iona Abbey. Plan of South transept with South window, profile mouldings of jamb and capital.

Description Iona, Iona Abbey. Plan of South transept with South window, profile mouldings of jamb and capital.

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 369047

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AGD 23/715

Scope and Content South transept at Iona Abbey, Argyll and Bute The Benedictine abbey at Iona was built around AD 1200 on the site of St Columba's earlier monastery. It was altered and partly rebuilt in the 13th century and again in the 15th century. It became derelict after the Reformation of 1560. This drawing shows the profile-moulding of one of the capitals from the transept's S window. Simply moulded, it consists of a pair of hollow chamfers over a quarter-roll. A further roll marks the top of the window jamb. The S transept is entirely 15th-century in date, apart from the little restoration done in 1904. The tracery of the S window was also replaced in 1875. Work on the W wall may have been hurried as it lacks the elaborate external base-course seen elsewhere. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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