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NEW See also:ABBEY , a See also:parish and See also:village of See also:Kirkcudbrightshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. of parish (19os) 957. The See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill of Criffel and See also:Loch Kinder are situated within the parish boundaries. The See also:lake contains two islets, of which one was a See also:crannog and the other the site of an See also:ancient. See also:kirk. The village, which lies 62 m. S. of See also:Maxwelltown, is famous for the ruin of Sweetheart Abbey, a Cistercian See also:house built in 1275 by Devorguila in memory of her . See also:husband See also:John de See also:Baliol, who had died at See also:Barnard See also:Castle in 1269. His See also:heart, embalmed and enshrined in a See also:coffin of See also:ebony and See also:silver, which she always kept beside her, was, at her See also:death in 1290, buried with her in the precincts of the abbey, which thus acquired its name (Abbacia Dulcis Cordis, or Douxquer). The See also:building afterwards became known as the New Abbey, to distinguish it from the older See also:foundation at Dundrennan, which had been erected in 1142 by Fergus of See also:Galloway. The remains of the abbey chiefly consist of the See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell of the beautiful Cruciform See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, with a central saddleback See also:tower rising from the transepts to a height of over 90 ft., and a graceful See also:rose window at the See also:west end of the See also:nave. Most of the See also:work is See also:Early See also:English with Decorated additions. The See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot's tower, a stately relic, stands about z m. N.E. of the abbey.
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