October 31st Autumn photograph of Balmerino Abbey, North East Fife, Scotland. This, now ruined, Scottish Abbey, was founded by Queen Ermengarde, widow of William the Lion and great granddaughter of William the Conqueror, and her son King Alexander II (1214 to 1249). The abbey is located the north coast of Ffe, overlooking the Firth of Tay.
October 31st Autumn photograph of stone steps at Balmerino Abbey, North East Fife, Scotland.
October 31st Autumn photograph of Balmerino Abbey, North East Fife, Scotland. In 1565 Mary Queen of Scots was a visitor at the abbey and more than likely lived in the abbot’s house as a guest of Sir John Hay. In 1603 the lands were erected into a temporal lordship by Sir James Elphinstone, first lord of Balmerino. However, the lordship seems to have been tainted with misfortune: both the first and second Lords of Balmerino were sentenced to death and the sixth and last was beheaded as a Jacobite in France in 1746.
October 31st Autumn photograph of the Chapter House at Balmerino Abbey, North East Fife, Scotland. The most complete remains of the abbey include the chapter house which was converted for use as a house after the Reformation.
October 31st Autumn photograph of the North Transept at Balmerino Abbey, North East Fife, Scotland.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
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