点评:The nave of the building of the Abbey Church (St Mary) is the most preserved and impressive building but the foundations and remaining lower walls of the adjoining buildings are still comprehensive enough to provoke the imagination - also an active Herb Garden remains in the centre of the site which is a nice touch.
The site covers all physical aspects of the Abbey along with the historic, cultural and (of course) religious context. There is a good digital Audio Guide provided by a QR code in the Visitor Centre, it was engaging, thorough and overarching - it even had monastic music playing occasionally. Though, I would recommend to fully charge your phone and have enough data to use the Audio Guide as it provides much more in-depth experience, but the plaques do provide adequate explanations.
The Visitor Centre has stone fragments and artefacts from when the site has been excavated over the years, a scale model of what the Abbey would’ve looked like during its height of operations and an all-in composing Timeline of events and life from when the building was established in the 12th Century right through to Modern day – I was interested the most by the Canon Regular’s (Augustine Priest) daily routine and the famous Jedburgh Pears once produced in and still around the Abbey.
I most appreciated the interactive engineering devices, tools and architectural techniques used in construction of the Abbey which are located in a small stone building next to the West entrance. In addition, there are ruined fragments of the Cloister’s arches positioned along the wall there (West) as well.
The entrance Shop where you buy your tickets and leave the site is rather mediocre and ought to have more relevant and unique items to the Abbey itself instead of the whole of Scotland or the Borders which could be found in most local touristy shops anyway. However, I thoroughly enjoyed our visit and will likely return in future travels.
翻译:修道院教堂(圣玛丽)的中殿是保存最完好、最令人印象深刻的建筑,但毗邻建筑的地基和剩余的低矮墙壁仍然足够完整,足以激发人们的想象力——此外,遗址中心还保留着一个活跃的药草园,这是一个不错的点缀。
该遗址涵盖了修道院的所有物理方面以及历史、文化和(当然)宗教背景。游客中心的二维码提供了一个很好的数字音频指南,它引人入胜、全面而全面——它甚至偶尔播放修道院音乐。不过,我建议将手机充满电,并有足够的数据来使用音频指南,因为它提供了更深入的体验,但牌匾确实提供了足够的解释。
游客中心有多年来挖掘遗址时留下的石块和文物,修道院在鼎盛时期的缩比模型,以及从 12 世纪建筑建成到现代的事件和生活时间轴——我最感兴趣的是教士(奥古斯丁神父)的日常生活,以及修道院曾经生产过并且现在仍在周围生产的著名的杰德堡梨。
我最欣赏的是修道院建造中使用的交互式工程设备、工具和建筑技术,它们位于西入口旁边的一座小石头建筑中。此外,那里(西边)的墙壁上还有修道院拱门的残骸。
购买门票并离开遗址的入口商店相当平庸,应该有更多与修道院本身相关且独特的物品,而不是整个苏格兰或边境地区,反正大多数当地旅游商店都可以找到这些物品。然而,我非常享受这次旅行并且很可能会在以后的旅行中再次回来。