Oronsay Priory. Photographic copy of drawing showing ground plan.

Description Oronsay Priory. Photographic copy of drawing showing ground plan.

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

Catalogue Number SC 536318

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 36849 P

Scope and Content Plan of ground floor, 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. As can be seen from the plan, the earliest parts of the priory on the east range were built between 1325 and 1353 when the monastery was founded. The existing church to the south of the cloister was built in the late 14th-early 15th century. In the late15th-early 16th century the MacDuffie Aisle was added along with what may have been the lower stage of a tower. In the early 16th century, three sides of the cloister arcade were rebuilt and the Prior's Chapel extended. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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