Description

Andrew Heiton 1868-70. U-plan courtyard group open on E side,
monastic buildings Gothic, 3-storey attic and basement in
fall of ground, rubble-built L-plan with ashlar dressings, S
range has oratory with corbelled altar area and turret in
angle to court, W range has square tower with high roof in
re-entrant angle near S end of W front, central double stair,
1868. Chapel lies on N side of court, oriented with
presbytery at W, cruciform EE/Early Dec., aisled 4-bay nave
with clerestory and porch, transepts with tall triple
lancets, aisleless niched apse with circular upper windows on
high basement flanked by circular belfry spirelet. Aisle
windows are twin lancets, clerestory and upper apse windows
are quatrefoiled circles.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• St Mary's Monastery at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17848784

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