Sweetheart Abbey, (HES) - New Abbey

Car park; shop
Disabled access & 2 car spaces in the public car park, 100 yards from the abbey for disabled drivers. Access, with the aid of a helper to the Ladybrothers Range including the nave, transept chapels, presbytery, cloister garth, novices room, and the sites of the kitchen and dining hall. There are one or two steps but access is possible for wheelchair visitors. The Library, sacristy, chapter house, treasury, parlour and warming house are not accessible to visitors with a disability.

The splendid remains of a late 13th and early 14th century ruin of vast Cistercian Abbey founded by Devorgilla, Lady of Galloway, in memory of her husband John Baliol.

Dervogilla is buried in the presbytery with a casket containing her husband's embalmed heart.

The original structural architecture must have been superb if the remains are anything to go by.