Melrose Abbey
St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks at the request of King David I of Scotland and was the chief house of that order in the country until the Reformation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Convent
- Description: partly ruined monastery in Melrose, Scotland
- Also known as: “St Mary’s Abbey, Melrose”
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Priorwood Garden and Harmony Garden.
Priorwood Garden
Photo: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Priorwood Garden is a garden in Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The garden contains an apple orchard of unusual apple trees. The flower garden is planted to supply the best samples for dry flower arrangements.
Harmony Garden
Garden
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Harmony Garden is the garden of Harmony Hall which is in the town of Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, administered by the National Trust for Scotland. Harmony Garden is situated 510 feet northwest of Melrose Abbey.
Commendator’s House, Melrose Abbey
Museum
Photo: Martin Dawes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Commendator’s House, Melrose Abbey is a museum, which is situated 460 feet north of Melrose Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melrose and Gattonside.
Melrose
Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY 3.0.
Melrose is a town in the Borders Region of southern Scotland, with a population of 2,510 in 2016. It's nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, and service town for the Borders General Hospital.
Gattonside
Village
Photo: MH032, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gattonside is a small village in the Scottish Borders. It is located 1 kilometre north of Melrose, on the north side of the River Tweed. In 1143, the lands of Gattonside were granted to the monks of Melrose Abbey by King David I.
Newstead
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newstead is a village in the Scottish Borders, about 1+1⁄4 miles east of Melrose. It has a population of approximately 260, according to the 2001 census.
Melrose Abbey
- Categories: Cistercian monastery, monastery ruins, cemetery, and religion
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Melrose Abbey” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Melrose-abdy”
- Basque: “Melrose abadia”
- Belarusian: “Абацтва Мелроўз”
- Catalan: “abadia de Melrose”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Melrose”
- Catalan: “St Mary”
- Chinese: “梅尔罗斯修道院”
- Chinese: “梅爾羅斯修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter Melrose”
- Dutch: “Melrose Abbey”
- French: “abbaye de Melrose”
- French: “Abbaye de melrose”
- French: “Abbaye de Melrose”
- French: “Abbaye De Melrose”
- French: “Abbé de Melrose”
- German: “Kloster Melrose”
- German: “Melrose Abbey”
- Greek: “Αββαείο του Μέλροουζ”
- Hebrew: “מנזר מלרוז”
- Italian: “abbazia di Melrose”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Melrose”
- Italian: “Melrose Abbey”
- Japanese: “メルローズ・アビー”
- Japanese: “メルローズ修道院”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Klosteret i Melrose”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melrose Abbey”
- Norwegian: “Melrose Abbey”
- Persian: “صومعه ملروز”
- Polish: “Melrose Abbey”
- Portuguese: “Melrose (Escócia)”
- Portuguese: “Melrose”
- Romanian: “Mănăstirea Melrose”
- Russian: “Аббатство Мелроуз”
- Scots: “Melrose Aibey”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Abaid Mhaolrois”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Melrose”
- Spanish: “Abadia de melrose”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Melrose”
- Spanish: “abadía de Melrose”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Melrose”
- Swedish: “Melrose Abbey”
- Welsh: “Abaty Melrose”
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