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Latitude: 57.5231 / 57°31'23"N
Longitude: -2.0541 / 2°3'14"W
OS Eastings: 396855
OS Northings: 848107
OS Grid: NJ968481
Mapcode National: GBR P88V.5M9
Mapcode Global: WH9P0.F52J
Plus Code: 9C9VGWFW+68
Entry Name: Deer Abbey
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349816
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16104
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200349816
Location: Old Deer
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Central Buchan
Parish: Old Deer
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Romanesque architecture Monastery ruins Cistercian monastery
Founded 1219 by William 1st Earl of Buchan. Of church (cruciform 157 long, N. aisle to nave and E aisle to S. transept) only footings, bungled piscina and other fragments remain. Ruins razed 1854. Cloister approx. 70' x 90', considerable remains of S. range, rubble-built with unmoulded round-headed arches.
Guardianship Monument. Scheduled 6 February 1996.
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