Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019117

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019117

Little of this historic religious house now remains. To the south of the present parish church, on the Dundee road, arc the ruins of what is thought to have been part or one of the entrances or gateways Into the precinct. This red sandstone, round, barrel-vaulted pend arch is the sole hint of the Splendour of the medieval Cistcrcian house figure 23. From the late sixteenth century, the abbey buildings proved a useful quarry; throughout the town many standing buildings offer evidence of being built from abbey stone.

Information from ‘Historic Coupar Angus: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).