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Absolutely beautiful!
I can imagine how grand it must have been with the roof & everything still intact.
(Oops, must have been posting as you loaded the last pic. The rendering definitely helps.)
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an there was ainly one fireplace in the entire abbey....
in a wee side room.....
monks arr intae sufferin ya ken.... :rolleyes:
NEXT!
Threave Castle....
hame o' the Black Douglas'.... an' Archibald The Grim!!!!
Last edited by Pour1Malt; 3rd May 06 at 10:49 AM.
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I always have such mixed emotions when I look at pictures of ruined abbeys and churches. They're so beautiful now, but I almost weep when I think of how beautiful they'd be if they were still in all their resplendent glory.
Robertson, do you happen ta ken when it was abandoned?
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Boy, that is some lovely architecture! Thanks for sharing.
I especially like first image.
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nice pics, P1M...
is red sandstone very common in Scotland?
& your Robertson Hunting kilt blends well with the grass...
looking forward to more pictorial tours...
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Happiness? I'd settle for being less annoyed!!!
"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused." - Declan MacManus
Member of the Clan Donnachaidh Society
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 Originally Posted by Retro Red
nice pics, P1M...
is red sandstone very common in Scotland?
& your Robertson Hunting kilt blends well with the grass...
looking forward to more pictorial tours...
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aye red sanstane is very common roon this part o Scotland.....
everything is built out o sandstane arr granite (also local)
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beautiful pics. is there a marker of the burial site?
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Originally Posted by Kilted KT
beautiful pics. is there a marker of the burial site?
aye... it is an above ground stane coffin in the
abbey.....maistly ruined but still there.....
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Originally Posted by Schultz
I always have such mixed emotions when I look at pictures of ruined abbeys and churches. They're so beautiful now, but I almost weep when I think of how beautiful they'd be if they were still in all their resplendent glory.
Robertson, do you happen ta ken when it was abandoned?
....Not sure at all, but I bet that they were abandoned after the arrival of protestantism and reform to Scotland. In Glasgow I could see the effects of it on the Cathedral, that lost all its images during the covenanters period. Abbeys and monestries suffered the same destiny: if they were not going to be used as cult places for the kirk,... they were attacked or simply left for their ruin... there was no importance for art of traditions on those times!. In Spain we suffered something like that on the XIXth. century, when a govt. minister called Mendizábal ordered the dissolution of the monk's institutions, and many aabeys and monestries went to private hands, who even dismounted them and sold the stones for building purposes,... others remained on pvt. hands but where let to ruin as well. There are dozens of forgotten ruined places like those on small villages all over rural areas of Spain that are now empty of population...
In opposition, I remember two examples of some respect: one is the Great Misquit, in Istambul, where the muslims respected the ornaments of the former orthodox Cathedral of Hagia Sofía, even after using it for their own cult who forbids images of God, St. Mary, the divinity of Christ, etc,...
The other one, on the opposite side, is The Al-Hambra in Granada, where a cathedral was built inside, but the amazing arabic ornaments were respected as well as the whole distribution of the building, and we can enjoy it today, even knowing that all the written texts on the walls are suras of the Q'ran, which was not accepted by our church...
... those can be examples of respect that arrive to us from the past... hopelessly we will learn some day this hard lesson!
¡Salud!
T O N O
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Great photos, as always, P1M.
Regional Director for Scotland for Clan Cunningham International, and a Scottish Armiger.
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