Oronsay Priory, interior. Detail of gable-headed arcade of cloister.
SC 536315
Description Oronsay Priory, interior. Detail of gable-headed arcade of cloister.
Catalogue Number SC 536315
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 7437
Scope and Content West cloister arcade, 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. In the early 16th century three sides of the arcade were reconstructed by the mason, Mael-Sechlainn Ó Cuinn, and given unusual triangular or gable-headed openings. The existing seven-bay arcade is a 19th-century reconstruction using original fragments. The cloister was a covered passage which went round a quadrangle and linked all the principal rooms of the monastery. Originally it had a lean-to roof and arcades with round-headed arches. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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