Pluscardine [Pluscarden]

Category

Library Item

Item no

24848

Title

Pluscardine [Pluscarden]

Description

This is an image of Pluscarden Abbey in Moray.

Artist / maker

De Cardonnel, Adam

Date

1788

Size

7.0 x 9.0 cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The British 19th century engraver and archaeologist Adam de Cardonnel was an educated man who practiced for a short while as a surgeon however his family's wealth gave him the leisure to indulge his interest in antiquities and numismatics. At the end of 1780 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland where he also served as curator from 1782 to 1784. Cardonnel later went on to produce work titled as 'Numismata Scotiae' which was published in Edinburgh in 1786 and 'Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland' which was published in London in 1788. Soon after this Adam De Cardonnel took over his cousin - Hilton Lawson's - estates in Chirton and Cramlington in Northumberland where he then served as sheriff for the county in 1796 and became knows as 'Adam De Cardonnel-Lawson'. Cardonnel spent his last days in Bath and after dying at age 73 he was buried at Cramlington in June 1820.

Pluscarden Abbey is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery located south-west of Elgin in Moray. The priory was founded in 1230 by Alexander II of Scotland for the Valliscaulian Order. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. In 1948 the priory began a new life as a house of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation of Benedictines and restoration began at the hands of monks from Prinknash in Gloucestershire. In 1966, the priory received its independence from the mother-house and achieved abbey status in 1974.

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