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Dryburgh Abbey. View through doorway.

SC 798822

Description Dryburgh Abbey. View through doorway.

Date c. 1880

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 798822

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BW 442

Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in the late 19th century, shows part of the east side of the north transept of the abbey church, seen through the doorway from the library and vestry into the church. The ivy was part of the Victorian concept of a romantic ruin, but destructive to the masonry. It has since been removed. 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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