Henry of Holyrood
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Henry was a 13th-century Augustinian abbot and bishop, most notable for holding the positions of Abbot of Holyrood and Bishop of Galloway.
Bishop Henry's seal
Diocese of Galloway
Sweetheart Abbey
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The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1273 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries
Henry of Holyrood
…near Richmond. D. E. R. Watt thinks that the consecration may in fact have taken place in early 1256. He was a witness to the foundation charter of Sweetheart Abbey, dated April 1273. The Archbishop of York, in 1287, authorised that Bishop Henry, because of his old age, be excused from the annual visit to York…
Sweetheart Abbey
Looking eastwards, the impressive nave of the abbey church leading (under the dramatic bell tower) to the chancel, with its richly carved and traceried windows. Above the rows of pillars, the triforia can just be seen.
Sweetheart Abbey entrance through the much altered archway in the abbey precincts which extended to 30 acres.