Collection Item
SC 798817
Date c. 1880
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 798817
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BW 445
Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from north This view from the west, taken in about 1880, shows the transepts of the abbey church. On the left is part of the gable of the north transept, with its aisle, and in the centre is the gable of the south transept. To the left is part of the north wall of the presbytery (east end) of the church. 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.
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