Monastery · Scotland · Partial ruin
Dunfermline Abbey
Abaid Dhùn Phàrlain
Dunfermline Abbey is the site of a medieval Benedictine abbey whose remaining church now serves as a Church of Scotland parish. The extant fabric includes a substantial Romanesque nave, transepts and choir area, with fragments of the wider monastic complex such as the refectory and gatehouse surviving nearby.
First raised
1101
Its prime
1150
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1150
What Dunfermline Abbey looked like in its prime.
A long cruciform stone church of warm, weathered sandstone: massive Romanesque massing with a twin-towered west front (one tower with a tall spire), a crenellated central tower at the crossing, a clerestoried nave with buttressed aisles, and a broad east end with large traceried window. Exterior walls show ashlar courses and pointed Gothic windows in the transepts; roofs are steep and slate-covered. The building sits above a grassy forecourt with scattered trees and low boundary walls.
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7 places to explore in 1150.
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