St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks at the request of King Davi
Ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Melrose, showing late 14th century Gothic architecture in rose colored sandstone with medieval cemetery, burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart, Scottish Borders
Melrose Abbey in 1800, when part of the abbey was still in use as the parish church
East gable and window, Melrose Abbey
Melrose Abbey from the south-east
Cuthbert was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbri
Melrose Abbey
…km) east of Melrose Abbey. This was shortly before his death in 651 at Bamburgh. Set in a bend of the River Tweed, a graveyard marks the site. Saint Cuthbert (died 687), who grew up nearby, trained at Old Melrose abbey. He was prior from 662 before he moved to Lindisfarne (Holy Island). Æthelweald was a…
Cuthbert discovers a piece of timber, from a 12th-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
12th-century wall-painting of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral
Cuthbert meets Ælfflæd of Whitby on Coquet Island, Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century
The front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, recovered from his coffin; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding.