View of parapet walk and gatehouse from East. Digital image of AY 535

Description View of parapet walk and gatehouse from East. Digital image of AY 535

Date 29/9/1941

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

Catalogue Number SC 798479

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AY 535

Scope and Content Crossraguel Abbey, South Ayrshire, from east This view from the east was taken in the mid-20th century, and shows the south front of the 16th-century gatehouse into the south court of the abbey, looking along the north wall of the court. Note the circular stair-tower giving access to the two upper rooms in the gatehouse, and to the cap-house leading to the wall-walk. 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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