More From Crossraguel Abbey

I don't know what's got into Photobucket.  I'm still unable to upload my photos, which is really quite annoying.  So I'll have to stick to using photos in landscape as opposed to portrait mode...

Here's the vaulting inside the chapter-house, which is just how you'd expect it.  It's very nicely preserved:-

 

And back in the abbey church, the piscina and the sedilia are also nicely preserved:-

 

I was reading Richard Fawcett's book on the abbeys and priories of Scotland (can't remember the name - it's in work...) and he was waxing lyrical about the architecture of Crossraguel.  The apsidal-ended church evidently displays influences from continental Europe....

The carved stone store has some nice little treasures, too:-

 

But it's the service buildings and the residential structures that are a really unusual survival in the place, probably because the location is so isolated that it just wasn't economically viable to rob the masonry.

 

The windows with the shapely tracery to the right of the picture show the location of the chapter-house.
 

More From Crossraguel Abbey

I don't know what's got into Photobucket.  I'm still unable to upload my photos, which is really quite annoying.  So I'll have to stick to using photos in landscape as opposed to portrait mode...

Here's the vaulting inside the chapter-house, which is just how you'd expect it.  It's very nicely preserved:-

 

And back in the abbey church, the piscina and the sedilia are also nicely preserved:-

 

I was reading Richard Fawcett's book on the abbeys and priories of Scotland (can't remember the name - it's in work...) and he was waxing lyrical about the architecture of Crossraguel.  The apsidal-ended church evidently displays influences from continental Europe....

The carved stone store has some nice little treasures, too:-

 

But it's the service buildings and the residential structures that are a really unusual survival in the place, probably because the location is so isolated that it just wasn't economically viable to rob the masonry.

 

The windows with the shapely tracery to the right of the picture show the location of the chapter-house.