Sweetheart Abbey

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The monastery Sweetheart ( Sweetheart Abbey; Novum Monasterium, New Abbey, Dulce cor) is a former Cistercian monastery in Scotland. It is located about 13 km south of Dumfries in the County of Dumfries and Galloway in southwestern Scotland, near the village of New Abbey.

History

The monastery was founded back in 1273 by Devorguilla of Galloway in memory of her husband John de Balliol, whose embalmed heart here the name of the abbey, founded as the last Scottish medieval Cistercian monastery. Sweetheart Abbey was a daughter establishment Dundrennan Abbey, a daughter of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire ( England), which in turn belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. The monastery came to the Scottish Reformation in 1560 until 1624 ( the last commendatory ) to extinction.

Buildings and plant

The system is made of deep red local sandstone. The walls of the cruciform Gothic ( Early English ) Abbey ( with crossing tower ) are largely retained and preserved since 1779. Also, the tracery of the great east window is obtained. The west front has three lancet window openings with overlying rose and shamrock window in the gable. From the monastery ruins are only otherwise get.

Abbots of Sweetheart

See article List of abbots of Sweetheart