Beauly Priory

Explore the ruined church of a little-known order of monks in a wooded, riverside location.
Beauly Priory is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The Valliscaulians came from Val-des-Choux ("Valley of the Cabbages') near Dijon in France, and adhered to strict ideals of poverty, chastity and obedience. Beauly, meaning "beautiful place', must have seemed to the monks a wonderful location in which to devote themselves to worship. Only the abbey church still stands today, housing some fine funerary monuments.