Dryburgh Abbey. View of S doorway to cloister gate. Digital image of BW 36

Description Dryburgh Abbey. View of S doorway to cloister gate. Digital image of BW 36

Date 1912

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

Catalogue Number SC 798811

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BW 36

Scope and Content Doorway to cloisters, Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south This view from the south, taken in the late 19th century, shows, in the foreground, the south doorway into the cloisters from the refectory range, with the processional doorway from the cloister into the abbey church in the background. All this work is of late 12th-century and early 13th-century date. 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. 139

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/798811

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