The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 341
FOURTH PERIOD — 324 THE ABBEY OF INCHCOLM subsist on the shell-fish and milk which formed the food of the hermitwho inhabited the island. It became an Augustinian abbey in honour ofSt. Columba. … Fig. S?P.—The Abbey of Inchcolni. Plan of Ground Floor There is no record of the erection of the existing conventual structures,but they appear from their style to be not earlier than the end of thetwelfth century. The abbey buildings (Fig. 899) extend across the whole width of theisthmus near the…
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