OS1/20/154/114

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List of Names collected by Archibald Craig Pte. [Private] R. S. and M. [Royal Sappers and Miners]
1st Examiner
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Plan and Trace--Received Names--Object--Description--Parish--Authority for spelling Name--Address
57C No. 9--Dundrennan Abbey (In Ruins)----This annexation took place in 1621 and was ratified by parliament in that year and again in 1633. Symson writing in 1684 "says the Bishop in Dumblain, a Dean of the Chapel Royal is Patron of the Parish of Rerwick or Dudranen and hath a part of his Revenue paid out of the lands of that Abbacy"
Although the building has suffered much from the devouring hand of time and not a little from dilapidation, for the purposes of Building cottages in the neighbourhood the remains are still very considerable and the original form and extent of the Abbey admits of being easily traced. The church of the Monastery was in the form of a cross, with a central spine, which is said to have been 200 feet high, the body of the building was 120 feet in length, and divided into three aisles, by seven clustered columns supporting arches entering to the side aisles of great height and beauty. The breadth of each of the side aisles

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[Signed Collector
Archibald Craig Pte. [Private] R. S. and M. [Royal Sappers and Miners]
23 January 1849

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