Newbattle Abbey Gates

Category

Library Item

Item no

29150

Title

Newbattle Abbey Gates

Artist / maker

Ross, Thomas

Date

1895

Size

27.5 x 38.2 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Art and Design Library

Thomas Ross was born at Wardheads, Errol, and attended local schools before going to Glasgow around 1855 to work as an assistant to architect Alexander Kirkland.
In 1862 he began as an assistant to David MacGibbon in Edinburgh, and was made a partner in the firm of MacGibbon and Ross in 1872. Ross began sketching the architecture of Scotland along with his senior partner, contributing to the latter's public lectures, and culminating in the pair's major publications.

Newbattle Abbey in the village of Newbattle in Midlothian was founded in 1140 by Cistercian monks on grounds gifted to them by King David I. The Newbattle monks were the first to mine coal in the area and were most probably Scotland's first miners.The building was heavily damaged by a series of raids by the English during the 14th and15th Century. Newbattle Abbey remained the home of the Marquesses of Lothian until being given to the nation in 1937 by Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, to be used as a College of Education.

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