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Photography by John Ball - 11.30am, 9 March 1998 (with Agfa ePhoto307 digital camera)
A monastery was first erected on this site by a colony of French Savigniac monks around AD 1130. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, parts of the abbey were transformed into a grand Tudor mansion. The buildings are now in various degrees of preservation, and many parts of the structure are still identifiable.
Image 1:
The Abbot's House, dating from about AD 1180 to 1250 but with later additions.
Image 2:
Ruins of the northeast wing, added in Tudor times onto the back of the Abbot's House.
Image 3, 4:
Parts of the entrance to the Monks' Day Room in the Abbot's House, built around AD 1200.
Image 5:
The remains of the great West Front of the Abbey Church.
Image 6:
The south wall of the Abbot's House, reflected in the still waters of the Tennent Canal.
Image 7:
Ahead are the remains of the north wall of the Abbey Church nave, and to the left, its west front.
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