{"id":889,"date":"2011-09-28T21:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/?p=889"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:19","slug":"melrose-abbey-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2011\/09\/melrose-abbey-extras\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose Abbey & Extras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures from Melrose Abbey<\/a> taken on the way up to Scotland at end of July<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbey\"<\/a> \"MelroseAbbeyGrounds\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This wasn’t the first abbey in Melrose; the earlier abbey, of which Cuthbert<\/a> was an abbot, was about 2 miles east of the current site.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeyQuire2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking up the quire to the amazingly delicate east window.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeyQuirePillars\"<\/a> \"MelroseAbbeyQuire\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The monastery fell into decline in the 16th C and part of the abbey was converted to a parish church at the start of the 17th C. Clearly their faith didn’t extend to the ancient stonework, and the undelicate chunky vaulting was added to the original Gothic architecture.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeyTransept\"<\/a> \"MelroseAbbeyTransept2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The transepts.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeyAbove\"<\/a> \"MelroseAbbey2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(L) North transept from above. (R) The cloisters.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeyDrain\"<\/a> \"MelroseAbbeyFlowers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(L) Part of the sophisticated drainage system, with the Commendator’s House<\/a> to the right,\u00a0 (R) flowers growing in the abbey grounds.<\/p>\n

\"MelroseAbbeySide\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The nave of the abbey, with its fantastic carvings, including a not-terribly-convincing bagpipe-playing pig.<\/p>\n

\"Melrose\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The centre of the small town of Melrose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Cricket\"<\/a> \"HebdenBridgeWashing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple of pictures from a walk in the Hebden Bridge<\/a> area: (L) cricket players and (R) washing lines out in the streets.<\/p>\n

\"Reservoir2\"<\/a> \"Reservoir\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Swinsty reservoir<\/a> [53 58 32 N, 1 42 8 W].<\/p>\n

\"WashburnHeritageCentre\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The delightful Washburn Heritage Centre<\/a> on the banks of the reservoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictures from Melrose Abbey taken on the way up to Scotland at end of July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,10],"tags":[62,157,83,35,167,152,151],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-places","category-uk","tag-abbey","tag-north-yorkshire","tag-old-buildings","tag-plants","tag-reservoir","tag-scotland","tag-west-yorkshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}