Scotland St. Cuthbert's Way Jedburgh

Jedburgh Abbey is the ruin of an Augustinian monastery.
King David I founded this monastery in 1138. Nine years later it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and destroyed nine times during the following centuries. The monks built it meticulously and carefully over and over again.

In the best time Jedburgh Abbey was subordinated to the royal castle of Jedburgh and in 1285 Alexander III married his wife Yolande here. Legend has it that before the wedding day he had a ghostly apparition announcing the imminent death of the king. It soon came to pass, because the following year Alexander lost his life after falling from his horse.

The abbey is the best preserved of its kind in the Borders. It is considered a prime example of Romanesque religious architecture in Scotland.