The Cloister (largely reconstructed in 1950s) with Descent of the Spirit sculpture (1959) by Lithuanian Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Iona Abbey, Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
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The Cloister (largely reconstructed in 1950s) with Descent of the Spirit sculpture (1959) by Lithuanian Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Iona Abbey, Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Iona Abbey was founded by St Columba in AD 563, though the buildings visible today date from the early 1200s when a community of Benedictine monks was established on the same site