Crawford Priory
Crawford Priory is the ruin of a former manor house in the Scottish Lowlands . It is three miles southwest of Cupar not far from the village of Springfield in Fife County .
Crawford Priory was originally built in 1758 by the 21st Earl of Crawford . Between 1809 and 1811, however, extensive renovations and extensions took place, which completely changed the appearance of the building. In 1809, Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford commissioned the architect David Hamilton with the redesign. In 1811, Hamilton was replaced by James Gillespie Graham . Both Hamilton and Graham had the manor house rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style, with Graham being even more oriented towards the Gothic forms known from church construction than Hamilton.
Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford died in 1833 and left Crowford Priory to the Earls of Glasgow . In 1871 the head of the family at the time, George Frederick Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow , had the building on the east side extended by a chapel. His successor, David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow , sold Crowford Priory due to high debts to Thomas Cochrane , who was raised to Baron Cochrane of Cults in 1919 . In 1920 he had the entrance area of the property extended by a vestibule.
Because of the enormous maintenance costs, the Cochrane of Cults closed parts of the building in the decades that followed. After the death of the 2nd Baron Cochrane of Cults, Thomas George Frederick Cochrane, 2nd Baron Cochrane of Cults , in 1968 they finally gave up Crowford Priory in 1971. Since then the property has been falling into disrepair. Today the interior has been almost completely destroyed, only the outer walls have been largely preserved. The ruin is not open to the public due to safety regulations.
Web links
- Crawford Priory . The Editors of The Gazetteer for Scotland,accessed August 30, 2012.
- Crawford Priory, Cupar, March 2008 . Derelict Places,accessed on August 30, 2012(English, photographs of the ruin).
Coordinates: 56 ° 17 ′ 22 " N , 3 ° 3 ′ 21" W