Old travel Blog photograph of the Abbots Parlour at Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Abbey was founded by the Premonstratensian Order, brought from Alnwick in 1140. They were a reformed group of Augustinians and this was their first of only six houses in Scotland. Though Dryburgh was less troubled than Jedburgh or Kelso, like Melrose it was wasted by the English in 1322, and rebuilt with the financial assistance of Robert the Bruce. The 15th century west end of the Abbey church lies flush to a high, enclosing cloister wall, where more usually would have been a range of claustral buildings. Elsewhere around the cloisters stood the refectory, warming house, library and vestry, parlour.
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