Dryburgh Abbey Designed Landscape Conservation Management Plan Peter McGowan Associates, Landscape Architects HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND Dryburgh Abbey Designed Landscape Conservation Management Plan April 2018 Peter McGowan Associates Landscape Architects and Heritage Management Consultants 86 Constitution Street, Edinburgh EH6 6RP 0131 261 6265 •
[email protected] Dryburgh Abbey designed landscape 1 Conservation Management Plan Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Background 5 1.2 Location, general description and historical outline 5 1.3 Brief and purpose of Conservation Management Plan 5 1.4 Approach and presentation 6 1.5 Physical scope of the plan 7 1.6 Statutory designations 7 2 Understanding the Dryburgh Abbey designed 8 2.1 Wider context and character 8 2.2 Zones of distinct landscape character 8 2.3 Main development phases of the Dryburgh Abbey landscape 13 2.4 Chronology of the development of Dryburgh Abbey designed landscape 13 2.5 Sir David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan and the making of the Dryburgh landscape 20 2.5.1 The earlier landcape 20 2.5.2 David Erskine’s designed landscape 21 2.5.3 Erskine’s Dryburgh Abbey sketchbook 25 2.5.4 Other published sources 27 2.6 Dryburgh Abbey as recorded by artists and photographers 28 2.6.1 John Slezer’s Theatrum Scotiae 29 2.6.2 David Erskine sketchbook 29 2.6.3 Turner at Dryburgh 29 2.6.4 Etchings of East range and Scott’s funeral procession at Dryburgh 30 2.6.5 Cloister and east range 30 2.6.6 Etchings with north transept 31 2.6.7 Etchings with Processional doorway 32 2.6.8 Views through