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	Pluscarden Abbey IV30 8UA Elgin (Pluscarden) United Kingdom
Denomination:	Roman Catholic
Congregation:	Pluscarden Abbey
Geogr. Coordinates:	57.60048° N, 3.43736° W
Reference year:	1230
Architectural style:	Gothic
Building type:	Basilica
Description:	Originally a basilica with nave, one aisle and transept, a tower over the crossing and a rectangular choir; today nave destroyed up to the transept.
Name derivation:	After the village Pluscarden


Organ	Organ built in 1998 by Kenneth Tickell
Windows	Stained glass windows (1958–1985; glass workshop of the monastery)

History:

1230:	Abbey founded by Alexander II (Order of Vallis Caulium)
1390:	Reconstruction after a fire, probably caused by an attack
1587:	Dissolution after most of the monks left, secularisation and gradual dilapidation
1948:	Refoundation as a Benedictine monastery, stepwise reconstruction

Important persons:

Patron:

Mary (c. 22 BCE – c. 48 CE, mother of Jesus [featured article])
John the Baptist (-5–29, prophet, Jesus’s baptizer, martyr)

Sources

Holmes, Augustine: Pluscarden Abbey, Heritage House Group, 2004