Site Represents a site. End Date 1560 Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Prim Media 545 Denomination Catholic Parish Balmerino Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Balmerino Abbey, Balmerino Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource Balmerino Abbey was founded in the 1220s by Queen Ermengarde and her son Alexander II. The new monastery at Balmerino was a Cistercian community, and was established with the assistance of monks from Melrose Abbey. Balmerino was a relatively small monastery and appears to have had some financial difficulties during the Middle Ages. It has been suggested that Balmerino struggled to compete for resources with the larger and richer religious houses at Lindores and St Andrews. On the evening of Christmas Day 1547 an English raiding party burned Balmerino Abbey, supposedly after Scottish forces had shot with hackbuts from the religious site. The extent of the damage done by the raiders is unclear, and by 1555 at least eight monks appear to have been living in the abbey. Soon afterwards, the Reformation rising of 1559 ended monastic life at Balmerino, although it is possible that the church continued to be used for parish worship until about 1611. Today the chapter house and a sixteenth-century residence are the most notable extant remains. As late as the 1780s stones from the abbey site were being removed for local building projects. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1220 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 259 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore entry for ‘Balmerino Abbey’. Available at: http://canmore.org.uk/site/31746 R. Oram, ed., Citeaux: Life on the Edge – The Cistercian Abbey of Balmerino, Fife (Scotland) (2008). W. Turnbull, ed., The Chartularies of Balmerino and Lindores (1841). Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 08/09/2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Natalia Nikitin Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.40975494089786,-3.0415105824067723; Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 09/26/2023 02:06:58 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Balmerino Abbey, Balmerino