Glenluce Abbey
Abbey in 2005 | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Comune Monasterii Beate Maeri de Valle Lucis |
| Other names | Abbey of Luce |
| Order | Cistercian |
| Established | 1192 |
| Disestablished | 1602 |
| Mother house | Dundrennan Abbey |
| Diocese | Diocese of Galloway |
| Controlled churches | Glenluce |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Lochlann, Lord of Galloway |
| Official name | Glenluce Abbey |
| Type | Ecclesiastical: abbey |
| Designated | 21 October 1994 |
| Reference no. | SM90153 |
Glenluce Abbey, near to Glenluce, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis and founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse.