Aerial view.
SC 798497
Description Aerial view.
Date 1994
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 798497
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 26471 CN
Scope and Content Aerial view of Crossraguel Abbey, South Ayrshire This aerial view from the north-west was taken in 1994, and shows the abbey church along the front of the complex, with the cloister on its south side. Beyond the cloister towards the right is the south court, with its flat-roofed gatehouse, and its dovecot. The tower-house at the south-east corner dates from about 1530. 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.
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