Nunraw Old Abbey

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Nunraw Old Abbey

Nunraw Old Abbey , also Nunraw House , is a mansion near the Scottish village of Garvald in the East Lothian Council Area . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish Monuments List in the highest category A. In addition, the associated pigeon tower is also independently classified as a category A structure.

history

There was previously a Cistercian convent on the site . Nunraw House was built in the first half of the 16th century as a tower house for defense against English troops. The fortress passed from the Hepburns into the hands of Clan Hays before the Glasgow merchant Walter Wingate acquired Gray Nunraw House in the second half of the 19th century. The Tower House was expanded into a mansion. The Scottish architecture firm Brown & Wardrop was responsible for the work in the 1860s . It is possible that the remodeling was overseen in the 1880s by the architects Robert Thornton Shiells and James M. Thomson . From 1946, Cistercian monks used the manor house until their new, south-western monastery was completed.

description

Nunraw Old Abbey is isolated around 700 m east of the village of Garvald on the Thorter Burn stream . It is similar in design to Huntingtower Castle in Perth and Kinross and Affleck Castle in Angus . The original Tower House had a Z-shaped floor plan . The red sandstone fortress has a circumferential, cantilevered battlement. The entrance area on the north side with its compact porte-cochère dates from the 1880s. In contrast to the main building, the masonry of the adjoining staff wing is made of rubble . An octagonal roof turret sits enthroned above the gateway to the inner courtyard . The roofs of Nunraw Old Abbey are slated; some of the gables worked as a stepped gable .

Pigeon tower

Pigeon tower of Nunraw Old Abbey

The pigeon tower was built in the late 16th century. It is located around 100 m north of Nunraw Old Abbey. It is a 6.7 m high round tower in the style of a beehive hut . The masonry is 1.10 m thick. There are four simple cornices around it. There are 24 entry holes above the second one. The dome has collapsed and has been replaced by an octagonal lantern . Inside there were 450 nesting boxes. In more recent times, however, the tower has been used as a storage room. In 2008 the pigeon tower was added to the register of endangered listed buildings in Scotland. His condition is described as moderate with low risk.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Entry on Nunraw Old Abbey  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Entry on the pigeon tower of Nunraw Old Abbey  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk

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Coordinates: 55 ° 55 ′ 37 "  N , 2 ° 38 ′ 44.2"  W.