Best of Scottish Highlands
The 20 best abbeys & priories in Scottish Highlands
Our curated top 20 abbeys & priories in Scottish Highlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 66 abbeys & priories see the full abbeys & priories index for Scottish Highlands.
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Beauly Priory
Beauly Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community located at "Insula de Achenbady", now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It was probably founded in 1230. It is not known for certain who the founder was, di
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Pluscarden Abbey
Pluscarden Abbey () is a Catholic Benedictine monastery in the glen of the Black Burn, six miles (ten kilometres) southwest of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. It was founded in 1230 by Alexander II for the Va
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Kinnoull Parish Church
Kinnoull Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in the Kinnoull area of Perth, Scotland. A "Kinnoull Church" appears in documents when it was granted to Cambuskenneth Abbey in 1361. It was rebui
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Lundie Parish Church
Lundie Kirk was the parish church of Lundie, Angus, in Scotland from the 12th century until 2017. The church was constructed in Romanesque style in the 12th century and was owned by the Priory of St A
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Restenneth Priory
Restenneth Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons founded by Jedburgh Abbey, with the patronage of King Malcolm IV of Scotland, in 1153. Although there is little literary evidence, archaeol
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Iona Abbey
Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, off the larger Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe, and was a focal
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Mortlach Parish Church
Mortlach Parish Church is a church within the Church of Scotland serving the parish of Mortlach, in Moray, close to the village of Dufftown. The site of the church has long been associated with Christ
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Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedicati
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Hill Church Of Rosehearty
Category A Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Pitsligo NGR NJ 93438 66285 Coordinates 393438, 866285 — A.Marshall Mackenzie, 1890 incorporating
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Newhills Parish Church
Category C Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Parish Newhills NGR NJ 87609 09455 Coordinates 387609, 809455 — John Smith 1829-30. Severe 4-bay pinned squared ru
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Ullapool old parish church
Category A Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Lochbroom NGR NH 12685 93998 Coordinates 212685, 893998 — Thomas Telford, 1829. Plans and specifications by
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Queen Anne High School Dunfermline
Queen Anne High School Dunfermline in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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St Fillan's Priory and Burial Ground, Kirkton
St Fillan's Priory and Burial Ground, Kirkton in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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