Sweetheart Abbey
| Cistercian Abbey Sweetheart | |
|---|---|
 Sweetheart Abbey |
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| location |
 United Kingdom of Scotland
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| Coordinates: | 54 ° 58 '48.1 " N , 3 ° 37' 8.7" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
676 |
| founding year | 1273 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1624 |
| Mother monastery | Dundrennan Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
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 Council Area Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, near the village of New Abbey .
history
The monastery was founded in 1273 by Dervorguilla de Balliol in memory of her husband John de Balliol , from whose embalmed heart the name of the abbey goes back, as the last Scottish medieval Cistercian monastery. Sweetheart Abbey was a subsidiary of Dundrennan Abbey , a daughter of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire ( England ), which in turn belonged to the Filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . After the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the monastery did not go out until 1624 (last Commendatar Abbot ).
Buildings and plant
The system is made of deep red local sandstone. The walls of the cruciform Gothic (Early English) abbey church (with crossing tower) have largely been preserved and have been conserved since 1779. The tracery of the large east window has also been preserved. The western front has three lancet-shaped window openings with a rose window above and a clover leaf window in the gable. Otherwise only ruins remain of the monastery complex.
Abbots of Sweetheart
See article List of Abbots of Sweetheart
