Dryburgh Abbey. View of door from nave to cloister. Digital image of BW/35.

Description Dryburgh Abbey. View of door from nave to cloister. Digital image of BW/35.

Date c. 1912

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

Catalogue Number SC 798809

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BW 35

Scope and Content Processional doorway, Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-south-east This view from the south-south-east, taken in the late 19th century, shows the processional doorway from the cloister into the abbey church, leading into the canons' choir, where they sat during services. Note that the caps of the columns are plain on the right, and carved with foliage on the left. Dryburgh Abbey was, like the other Border abbeys, sacked on several occasions by English invaders. It was effectively destroyed in 1545 by English forces under the Earl of Hertford, during the 'Rough Wooing', and the Reformation finished it off. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was buried amongst the ruins of the abbey. Dryburgh Abbey was founded in 1150 by Hugh de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, as a house of the White Canons of the Premonstratensians. This order of religion were much more involved with the secular world than the Cistercians or the Tironensians, at Melrose and Kelso. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Inv. fig. 131

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/798809

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