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15 Sep

Sir Walter Scott 

was buried here in 1832, and several others. This marker stood out for the inscription about Nigel Haig’s wife Unity: Dancer, Singer, Peter Pan.

15 Sep

The chapter house

where the canons gathered, seated on the stone benches along sides of room, for a chapter of the Rule read every day, for Abbey business, confession and discipline. The plaster…

15 Sep

More of the ruins 

Dryburgh was burned by an English army in the time of Edward II in 1332. This and other “border abbeys” near the border of Scotland and England, were objects of…

15 Sep

Dryburgh

15 Sep

Approaching Dryburgh Abbey, c. 1150

Hugh de Moreville founded the Abbey for Premonstratension canons, who came from France and followed a rule based on personal holiness, preaching and an austere life. However, they left most…

15 Sep

Gardens at Floors

15 Sep

Next stop Floors Castle, Kelso 

This is Scotland’s largest inhabited castle, still in the Duke of Roxhurghe family, with 10th Duke and family in residence.  Sheila from Fauhope House said we had to go there,…

15 Sep

Goodbye Abbotsford 

Mickey waited on a bench while I explored the chapel.

15 Sep

The chapel at Abbotsford (1855)

and a private wing of the house (1853) added by Scott’s granddaughter Charlotte and her husband John Hope-Scott – the house was already open to visitors. John was a friend…

15 Sep

The religious corridor

is a hallway leading to the staircase upstairs to the family’s bedrooms – not on tour. The pictures here are of casts from the ancient stones of old ecclesiastical buildings.

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