Overview
You can visit the grounds, cloister area and much of the nave, though some access restrictions remain in place due to the identified risk from high-level masonry.
Discover the tale of devotion behind the abbey’s evocative name. Monks named it Dulce Cor in memory of Lady Dervorguilla, who founded the abbey in tribute to her beloved husband, John Balliol.
Celebrate 750 years of Robert the Bruce and join in on the big birthday trail across Dumfries and Galloway.
What to see and do
- Admire the remarkably complete abbey church, still doing its best to inspire and overawe 700 years on
- Look up at the mighty precinct wall of massive granite boulders – it ranks alongside the wall at St Andrews Cathedral
- Take our fun fact-finding quiz about the abbey.
General view of Sweetheart Abbey
