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
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.
Dervorguilla of Galloway
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Dervorguilla of Galloway was a "lady of substance" in 13th-century Scotland. She was the wife, from 1223, of John de Balliol and the mother of King John Balliol.
Sweetheart Abbey
…Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles (13 km) south of Dumfries. The abbey, located on the banks of the New Abbey Pow (river), was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband, John de Balliol. After his death, she kept his embalmed heart, contained in a casket of…
Sweetheart Abbey, Galloway
Devorguilla Bridge, Dumfries