Deer Monastery
| Cistercian Deer Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Deer Abbey |
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| location |
 United Kingdom of Scotland
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| Coordinates: | 57 ° 31 '24 " N , 2 ° 3' 14.5" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
577 |
| founding year | 1219 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1587 |
| Mother monastery | Kinloss Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Deer Abbey ( Engl. : Deer Abbey ) is a former monastery of the Cistercian order in Scotland . It is near the village of Old Deer in the Aberdeenshire region .
history
The monastery was founded in 1219 under the patronage of William Comyn and his wife Marjorie and was built on a site where there had previously been a monastic settlement. Deer Abbey was a subsidiary of Kinloss Abbey , a daughter of Melrose Abbey , which in turn was a subsidiary of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Deer Abbey was transformed into a secular property of the last Commendatar Abbot Robert Keith in 1587 as the Lordship of Altrie .
Buildings and plant
The outline of the cruciform church, which was demolished in 1854 , is still visible. More of the buildings in the south of the cloister ( refectory , abbot house, kitchen) have been preserved.
The Ferguson family, whose Pitfour Estate owned the complex, set up a kitchen garden in the 1810s and later converted the ruins into a mausoleum . The changes were reversed in the 20th century, the entrance to the mausoleum remained.
literature
- Ian B. Cowan, David E. Easson: Medieval Religious Houses Scotland. With an appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man. Longman, London et al. 1976, ISBN 0-582-12069-1 , pp. 47, 74.
- AA Tait: The landscape garden and neoclassicism. In: Journal of garden history. Volume 3, 1983, pp. 317-332 (325).
- DER Watt, NF Shead (Ed.): The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries. Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh 2001, ISBN 0-902054-18-X , pp. 54 ff. ( The Scottish Records Society. New Series, Volume 24).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Milne: Comyn, Earl of Buchan . In: James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 2 : Banff-Cranstoun . David Douglas, Edinburgh 1905, p. 252 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).