Detail of W door.
RX 889
Description Detail of W door.
Date c. 1887
Collection Photographs by J Hay, photographer
Catalogue Number RX 889
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 799130
Scope and Content West doorway, Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from west This view from the west, taken in about 1887, shows the west doorway at the end of the nave, looking through the nave and crossing. Though badly eroded, it is clear that this was a very splendid doorway. On the left the photograph has been retouched to show new stone inserted into the fabric. Jedburgh was less badly treated than the other Border abbey churches in the English raids of the later Middle Ages. After the Reformation the transepts and crossing became the parish church, and in 1671 this move into the nave. The vault of the crossing collapsed in 1743. Jedburgh Abbey was founded on the site of a 9th-century church in about 1138, when Augustinian Canons were brought over from France. The choir, crossing and transepts of the abbey church were complete by 1174. The nave had been built by 1220, and the original east end had been reconstructed by 1220. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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