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has been peculiarly unfortunate as it seems long afterwards to have formed a quarry from
which the inhabitants of Newburgh obtained stones for repairing or erecting their houses.
The consequence is that the whole of the polished ashler stones with which the walls of the church
and other buildings were faced both outside and inside have been removed and almost nothing
now remains of the walls but the internal packing of small stones and lime which filled up the
space between the ashler fronts. A thick matting of ivy serves however in part to conceal the long
continued dilapidations which ruthless have made on these interesting ruins. If we might be
allowed to form any conjecture as to the style of the church, we should suppose it to have been
what is now usually styled the early English that is the first and simplest form in which the
pointed style is anywhere found. The appearance of the groinings on the roof of two small vaulted
crypts which are yet entire would seem to favour this Conjecture. It may however have been in
the Norman Style which immediately preceded the early English and was for a time Coeval with it
indeed both of these styles were practised about the era of the erection of this monastery. The wall which
surrounded the precinct of the abbey is still pretty entire, and within it and in its immediate vicinity, are still to be seen
many of the " vastly big old pear trees" mentioned by Sibbald. One of these is particularly worthy of
notice for its great size and age although it is now, from the breaKing down of one of its principal branches
a third less than it was a few years ago. When we saw it in 1839, it was, notwithstanding its age, and that it is begin
-ginning to decay internally literally loaded with fruit. It is said that David, Duke of Rothsay, eldest son of
Robert II, who was barbarously murdered at Falkland, by the contrivance of his uncle, the Earl of Fife, and Sir
John Ramorney was buried here but this is doubtful as it is also said he was buried in the old church of
Kilgour near Falkland. A stone coffin is pointed out at Lindores, which is said to have been that of the Prince but this
is mere vague conjecture. for any thing that appears, it may have been the resting place of some of the abbots of the monastery
The last of the Earls of Douglas after a life of trouble & turmoil, found a peaceful retreat for his old age and died within
the walls of the monastery in 1488."
Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland 1845.