Description
This sketch of a south-west view of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, shows the main entrance and western façade. The sketch, which dates from 1813, is unsigned and may be by George Henry Hutton himself. This is the only image relating to Paisley Abbey in the Hutton Collection. Paisley, on the White Cart Water in Renfrewshire south-west of Glasgow, has long been an important ecclesiastical site in Scotland. St Mirren reputedly established a Celtic monastery there in the eighth century and, in 1163, Walter Fitz-Alan founded a Cluniac Priory that became an abbey in 1219. Destroyed by English troops in 1307, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, it partially collapsed in 1533. The work, which restored the building to its present impressive state, took place between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Collective title: Hutton Drawings > [Volume 2] > Renfrewshire
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Image Licence
CC BY 4.0
Image Credit
Courtesy of National Library of Scotland
Location
Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Country
Scotland
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
