Oronsay Priory. Detail of window with decorated arched head in South side wall of priory.

Description Oronsay Priory. Detail of window with decorated arched head in South side wall of priory.

Date 1977

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

Catalogue Number AG 11371

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 536325

Scope and Content Detail of window with decorated arched head, Oronsay Priory, Oronsay, Argyll and Bute Oronsay Priory, a house of Augustinian canons, was founded in the second quarter of the 14th century by John I, Lord of the Isles. Unusually for Argyll, it was a medieval foundation on a site where there is no surviving previous Early Christian activity. This window is on the south side-wall of the church. The arched head of the window bears traces of a stud-like or nail-head (pyramid-shaped) ornament. The earliest remains of the priory date to between 1325-53. The construction of the existing church, including the window described above, belong to a second phase of building in the late 14th or early 15th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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