Dryburgh Abbey. General view.
SC 798819
Description Dryburgh Abbey. General view.
Date c. 1880
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 798819
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BW 441
Scope and Content Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in the late 19th century, shows the north-east corner of the abbey church. The two arches on the left are the east side of the north transept, and to the right are the two arches of the west section of the presbytery, or east end of the church. The lower part of the east wall of the presbytery is on the right. 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.
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