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Coldingham Priory is a Benedictine religious house founded in the early twelfth century in Berwickshire, southeastern Scotland. The surviving claustral remains represent substantial architectural testimony to monastic life, including stonework and structural elements characteristic of medieval priory planning. The site experienced significant disruption during the Scottish Reformation and subsequent centuries, which accounts for its fragmentary condition today. The surviving architecture provides important evidence of monastic organisation and construction methods employed during the medieval period in the Scottish Borders region.
Coldingham Priory, claustral remains is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM383. View the official record →
Coldingham Priory is a Benedictine religious house founded in the early twelfth century in Berwickshire, southeastern Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM383.
Coldingham Priory, claustral remains is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM383.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Taprobane, palisaded enclosure 970m SE of (7.5 km), Chester Hill,fort and cultivation terraces (7.6 km), Auchencrow Mains, settlements 460m W of (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Coldingham Priory, claustral remains's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Coldingham Priory, claustral remains stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.