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Field Visit
Date 19 March 1928
Event ID 1098507
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098507
The Abbey House.
This three-storeyed mansion, which has been partly dismantled, stands immediately east of the Abbey Church. It dates from 1608, but the greater part was pulled down and reconstructed in 1830. On plan it consists of an oblong main block running east and west with rectangular towers, which terminate in ogival slated roofs, projecting from the southern corners, and a wing which projects northward in alignment with the west gable. The pediments of the first floor windows contain alternately the initials L.E.B. and D.M.B. commemorating the first builder, Lord Edward Bruce of Kinloss, and his wife, Dame Magdalene Clerk (cf. No. 162 [Pond Cottage]), or Bruce. The initials of Sir Robert Preston, who carried out the 19th-century reconstruction, and those of his wife, Dame Elizabeth Preston, with the date 1830, are recorded on the east gable, which also bears the dates 1608 and 1670.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 19 March 1928.
