Sweetheart Abbey
An Abaid Ur | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Abbey of Dulce Cor |
| Other names | New Abbey |
| Order | Cistercian |
| Established | 1273 |
| Disestablished | 1624 |
| Mother house | Dundrennan Abbey |
| Dedicated to | St Mary the Virgin |
| Diocese | Diocese of Galloway |
| Controlled churches | Buittle; Crossmichael; Kirkcolm; Kirkpatrick-Durham; Lochkindeloch; Wigtown |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Dervorguilla of Galloway; Abbot Henry, S.O.Cist. |
| Architecture | |
| Style | Early English |
| Site | |
| Location | New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Visible remains | Abbey 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 1273 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.