View ENE across cloister of Dundrennan Abbey, Kirkcudbright, to the C13th chapter-house entrance (R) & S & N transepts of C12th monastic church.

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View ENE across cloister of Dundrennan Abbey to the C13th chapter-house entrance (R) & S & N transepts of the C12th monastic church. Cistercian abbey founded c 1142 as a daughter-house to Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. A fine example of Transitional architecture moving from Romanesque to Gothic.

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Location: Dundrennan Abbey, Kirkcudbright, Stewartry, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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