Oronsay Priory

The monastery Oronsay, also Priory Oronsay (English: Oronsay Priory ), a former monastery of the Augustinian Order on the Scottish Hebridean island of Oronsay The complex is located near the west coast of the tidal island in a protected bay called Port na Luinge. In 1971 the Abbey Oronsay was inducted into the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

History

There are indications of an earlier monastery at this site Oronsay, which the Holy Columba is said to have founded. It should thus come from the 6th century. Whether in fact this monastery existed, however, is not assured. Founder of the now preserved as ruins monastery Oronsay was John of Islay, the first Lord of the Isles. Probably the plant was completed around the year 1350. The earliest written evidence of the existence of the monastery dates from 1353rd

To the east are the oldest parts of the plant, which is likely to be among the first buildings erected. How big was the whole monastery complex at this time, is not backed up. A second construction phase can be dated to the late 14th or early 15th century. In addition to new buildings, existing buildings this may already have been expanded. In the late 15th century was a far-reaching transformation of the plant. In a further construction in the late 15th or early 16th century, the choir has been expanded and added a chapel. The stone and separately classified as a monument Celtic Cross Oronsay Great Cross was made ​​around the year 1510. Around this time the monastery arcades were newly designed. This work led by the Steinmetz Mael- Sechlainn O ' Cuinn. When the monastery was just abandoned, is not listed. After the secularization of the plant in 1616 was described in the 1620s as a partly ruinous with collapsed roofs. 1883, the monastery Oronsay was partially restored.