PLUSCARDEN AN ABBEY OF BENEDICTINE MONKS NEAR ELGIN MORAY SCOTLAND
Image details
Contributor:
JOHN BRACEGIRDLE / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
E56HN8File size:
56.1 MB (3.1 MB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
6016 x 3259 px | 50.9 x 27.6 cm | 20.1 x 10.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
20 July 2014Location:
SCOTLANDMore information:
Pluscarden Abbey is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery located in the glen of the Black Burn about 10 kilometres south-west of Elgin, in Moray, Scotland. It has been for most of its history a priory and was founded in 1230 by Alexander III of Scotland for the Valliscaulian Order. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey, 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. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.