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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 708888
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/708888
NS98NE 3.00 98884 86246
NS98NE 3.01 NS 98727 86380 Monastic Outbuilding; Abbey House, West Lodge
NS98NE 3.02 NS 9886 8624 and NS 9887 8624 Cross-base and shafts
NS98NE 3.03 NS 9819 8677 Well
NS98NE 3.04 NS 98843 86235 Manse
NS98NE 3.05 centred on NS 9887 8627 Graveyard
NS98NE 3.10 Bruce of Carnock Vault
For Culross Abbey House (NS 9894 8625) and associated buildings, see NS98NE 4.00.
(NS 9887 8622) Culross Abbey (NR) (Cistercian - AD 1217)
OS 6" map (1967).
The Cistercian monastery of Culross, a daughter house of Kinloss, was founded by Malcolm, Earl of Fife before 1217; it was dedicated to St Mary and St Serf. Parts of the nave remain and the present parish church has been erected over the monastic choir. Also extant are parts of the cellarium, and the foundations and piers of the undercrofts of the E range and frater. Only the S wall of the nave is of early 13th c date; the rest of the buildings date mostly from about 1300, and were again reconstructed in the reign of James IV (1488-1513). The abbey was secularised in 1589.
D E Easson 1957; S Cruden 1960; S Piggott and W D Simpson 1970; RCAHMS 1933, visited 1927; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896; Visited by OS (JLD) 13 January 1954
