West end of Church. Digital image of AY 533

Description West end of Church. Digital image of AY 533

Date 28/9/1941

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 798477

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AY 533

Scope and Content Crossraguel Abbey, South Ayrshire, from west-south-west This view from the west-south-west was taken in the mid-20th century looking along the axis of the abbey church through the west door. The transverse wall, with its belfry, was inserted in the 16th century. The round-headed doorway leads into the choir. The last monks of Crossraguel Abbey were still living there in 1592, and must have been among the last pre-Reformation monks in Scotland. Ralegh Radford identified some small cells as 'sheltered housing' for old men not in orders who lived in the community as paying guests, known as corrodiars. Crossraguel Abbey was founded in 1244 by monks from the Cluniac Abbey of Paisley, after Paisley had tried to hold on to land given by Earl Duncan of Carrick in about 1200. It was never a large or particularly prosperous abbey, but the remains are unusually complete. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Emergency Survey

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