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Old Photograph Pluscarden Priory Scotland
Old photograph of Pluscarden Priory located South West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest the decay took place in the late 19th century but it wasn't until 1948 when restoration of the priory was begun by monks from the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.
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