Dryburgh Abbey.
SC 798922
Description Dryburgh Abbey.
Date c. 1890
Catalogue Number SC 798922
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BW 483
Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in the late 19th century, shows the north-east corner of the cloister, with the gable of the south transept of the abbey church in the centre. The moulded arch on the right leads into the chapter house and that on the left is the processional doorway from the cloisters into 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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