Interior, North Transept Aisle, Dryburgh Abbet. Digital image of BW 41.

Description Interior, North Transept Aisle, Dryburgh Abbet. Digital image of BW 41.

Date c. 1912

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

Catalogue Number SC 798802

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BW 41

Scope and Content Interior of north transept, Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south This view from the south, taken in the late 19th century, shows the vaulting in the east aisle of the north transept of the abbey church. The vaulting is of rib and panel type. The column on the right is the beginning of the presbytery (east end) aisle vault. Dryburgh Abbey was, like the other Border abbeys, sacked on several occasions by English invaders. It was effectively destroyed in 1545 by English forces under the Earl of Hertford, during the 'Rough Wooing', and the Reformation finished it off. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was buried amongst the ruins of the abbey. Dryburgh Abbey was founded in 1150 by Hugh de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, as a house of the White Canons of the Premonstratensians. This order of religion were much more involved with the secular world than the Cistercians or the Tironensians, at Melrose and Kelso. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Inv. fig. 127

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