Interior. Detail of woodwork in first floor morning room. Digital image of C 54130.

Description Interior. Detail of woodwork in first floor morning room. Digital image of C 54130.

Date 5/1995

Catalogue Number SC 772440

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 54130

Scope and Content Detail of woodwork in the morning room, Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian This shows part of a carved wooden fitted bookcase in the morning room. The larger timbers are carved with bands depicting a putto (small cherub) playing the violin, bands of foliage, and flowers. A morning room was one of many grand rooms which members of the household would use throughout the day. It would be placed to catch the best of the morning sunlight, and be used as a sitting room, office for writing letters, or for taking private breakfast. Newbattle Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks in 1140, and its church dedicated to St Mary in 1233-4. It became a private residence in 1587 when the last abbot, Mark Kerr, converted to Protestantism and was able to retain his lands. His son became Lord Newbattle in 1596. The remains of the abbey are built into the surviving house, which was modified and rebuilt by the architects John Mylne (1650), William Burn (1836) and David Bryce (1858). The house was gifted to the nation in 1937 to be used as a further education college. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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