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| Priory continued | [continued from page 43] the Nave and choir seem to have been the finest structure, some of the arched windows and doors are yet entire. The choir contains the burying ground of the Grahams of Letchtown, Grahams of Phaedel, Grahams of Garten; of Duchray; of Glenny; of Gartmore; and Grahams of Mondowie; And about the centre of the choir in a horizontal position, lyes a Sepulchral monument, assignable to the end of the 13th century, being that of Walter Stewart, Earl of Monteith, and his Countess in whose right he enjoyed the Earldom. That square building on the north west angle of the nave seems to be ruins of a tower. The 2 walls S.W. by N.E. [South West by North East] seems to have been an avenue leading into the Vault. "The Priory of Inchmahome, the buildings are still so entire, that the uses to which each one of them respectively was applied may be guessed at. The Nave and choir measure together 50 paces by 12, the former had in the north wall four arches, 2 of which fell about 50 years ago, one of the entire arches, being the western, is covered by a tower or belfry, a quadrangle corresponding to which on the south side, is erased, as are the cloisters on the same side and of which the corbels are visible. The rest of the arches had an aisle outside of which the ragling is discernible on the tower. The western entrance is entire; and some of the hewn stones of a window above are visible. The oriel window of the Choir is filled up with rubble work of modern date. The side walls of this portion of building are almost entire. South of the church, at the distance of a few yards, are the ruins of an edifice, consisting, on the ground floor, of the refectory, 19 paces by 11, and to which was an entrance from the dormitory on the north, another from the Kitchen on the south east angle, and a 3rd about the centre of the east wall, and descending by a few steps from the stairs leading to some more apartments above the Kitchen. Of part of all these ... [Continued on page 44] |
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[Page] 44[Notes referring to the 'Priory']
"The ruins of a large monastery, which was once the seat of the Augustinian Monks. It was founded by King Egbert in 825"
Black's Tourist Guide book
"The largest of the islands, seems to have very anciently been a seat of the Culdees. This which in itself is highly presumeable, appears from what David Camerarins says of St. Berchan, that he was renowned in Stirlingshire in the 8th Century, and spent part of his youthful days in the Convent of St. Columba, not far from Stirling; an assertion applicable to Inchmahome"
"The island of St. Columba, as Inch-ma-home is supposed to signify, constitutes the leading feature."
New Stat [Statistical] Account
The priory belonged to the Canons Regular of the Augustinian order, and was founded by Edgar, King of Scotland. Fullarton's Gazetteer
"On the larger of its two islands are the ruins of the priory of Inchmahome, founded by Edgar, King of Scotland where the unfortunate Queen Mary passed her infancy." Anderson's Guide to the Highlands.
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