Abbey

The Abbey Graveyard Gun

Published 19 September 2016

After the Crimean War, a large number of captured cannons were given to British towns as trophies. In “The Graveyard Gun” Sue Mowat gives us an insight into local politics in the 19th Century and the decidedly mixed response to Dunfermline’s Russian Gun.

The Abbey Church

Published 25 April 2016

Did You Know..

…that Dunfermline’s new Abbey Church was nearly built south, not east, of the old nave?

In The New Abbey Church, Jean Barclay tells us how the church was very nearly built between the medieval nave and the fratery. Dunfermline would have looked very different had that plan gone ahead.

Burns and the Black Stool

Published 19 January 2016

Did you Know..

..that Robert Burns once rebuked his friend on the Abbey’s Black Stool?

Dr Jean Barclay tells the story of a visit by Burns to Dunfermline Abbey.