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Melrose Abbey
The monastery at Melrose, Scotland, was founded in the eleventh century, but the church of which we here see the ruins was not built until about 1450. Sir Walter Scott, in one of his well-known novels, The Monastery, describes his impressions of the way in which the monks lived
