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Coupar Angus Abbey gatehouse is a Medieval structure forming part of the former Cistercian abbey complex in Perthshire, Scotland. The gatehouse dates from the Later Medieval period and represents the surviving monastic architecture of what was one of Scotland's significant Cistercian foundations, established in the twelfth century. As a gatehouse, it would have functioned as the principal entrance point to the abbey precinct, controlling access to the monastic community and its lands. The structure survives as evidence of the abbey's physical layout and the architectural conventions governing access to enclosed monastic spaces during the later Middle Ages.
Coupar Angus,Abbey gatehouse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1629. View the official record →
Coupar Angus Abbey gatehouse is a Medieval structure forming part of the former Cistercian abbey complex in Perthshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1629.
Coupar Angus,Abbey gatehouse dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a abbey gatehouse. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Coupar Angus,Abbey gatehouse 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 SM1629.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hillfoot, ring-ditches 400m WNW of (4.5 km), Hill of Dores, fort (5 km), Macbeth's Law,mound,Lawton House (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Coupar Angus,Abbey gatehouse'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.
Coupar Angus,Abbey gatehouse stands on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.