Dundrennan Abbey
ElizabethMcD (Premium member) > albums
-
Dundrennan Abbey is most famous as
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
the place where Mary Queen of Scots
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
spent her last night on Scottish soil.
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
This remarkable abbey started life in
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
1142 when King David I brought Cistercian
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
monks from Rievaulx in Yorkshire. Its
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
architecture is of special interest,
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
being built at the transition between
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
Romanesque and Gothic. The abbey was
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
mother to two more, both in Galloway.
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 2
-
Sweetheart Abbey built at New Abbey
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 1
-
close to Dumfries, and Glenluce which
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
is near Stranraer. These White Monks
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
led a life of poverty, chastity and
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
obedience, despite which their Order
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
established hundreds of abbeys etc
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
from Russia to Ireland. They were
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
not allowed to build a new house if
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
the bells of another could be heard
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
at the proposed site. 13 monks were
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
required to set up these new houses.
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
They preferred to build in remote
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
or isolated spots. The splendour
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
of their abbeys was to glorify God,
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
the only extravagance they permitted.
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
For 400 years the monks laboured here,
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
-
affected by the wars against England.
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 1
-
By the early 16th century the community
- last edit: 25-Apr-2009
- comments: 0
Album Description:
Dundrennan Abbey is about 6 miles SE of Kirkcudbright on the A711. Dalbeattie is about 8 miles to the NE. One of the 3 abbeys in Galloway. The others are Sweetheart and Glenluce. Please see their separate albums.
Album Info:
Album Stats:
- Photos: 41
- Views: 1,098
- Downloads: 14
more Webshots
-
More from this member
More albums by Premium member
ElizabethMcD


1 comment
Another very interesting album Elizabeth. Hugs, Shirley
said
sjhpumpkin 6 months 17 days ago
To be able to leave a comment please Log in or Sign up.