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Sweetheart Abbey
An Abaid Ur
Monastery information
Full nameAbbey of Dulce Cor
Other namesNew Abbey
OrderCistercian
Established1273
Disestablished1624
Mother houseDundrennan Abbey
Dedicated toSt Mary the Virgin
DioceseDiocese of Galloway
Controlled churchesBuittle; Crossmichael; Kirkcolm; Kirkpatrick-Durham; Lochkindeloch; Wigtown
People
Founder(s)Dervorguilla of Galloway; Abbot Henry, S.O.Cist.
Architecture
StyleEarly English
Site
LocationNew Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Visible remainsAbbey church, precinct wall, chapter house

The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey (Gaelic: An Abaid Ur), was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles (13 km) south of Dumfries.

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