Detail of stair to dorter. Digital image of AY 532

Description Detail of stair to dorter. Digital image of AY 532

Date 28/9/1941

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

Catalogue Number SC 798476

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AY 532

Scope and Content Crossraguel Abbey, South Ayrshire, from east-south-east This view from the east-south-east was taken in the mid-20th century, and shows the doorway in the east side of the cloister which originally led into the treasury of the abbey. The stairway is later, and partly modern, to give access to the former dormitory on the first floor of the east range. The last monks of Crossraguel Abbey were still living there in 1592, and must have been among the last pre-Reformation monks in Scotland. Ralegh Radford identified some small cells as 'sheltered housing' for old men not in orders who lived in the community as paying guests, known as corrodiars. Crossraguel Abbey was founded in 1244 by monks from the Cluniac Abbey of Paisley, after Paisley had tried to hold on to land given by Earl Duncan of Carrick in about 1200. It was never a large or particularly prosperous abbey, but the remains are unusually complete. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Emergency Survey

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