Coldingham Priory, one of the oldest religious sites in the Scottish Borders, was destroyed in Hertford's 1544 raids. The priory had Northumbrian royal connections stretching back to St Cuthbert. Its destruction was emblematic of the Rough Wooing's assault on Scottish ecclesiastical culture. The ruins of Coldingham Priory still survive and give a vivid impression of the scale of destruction wrought across the Borders in the 1540s.
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