New Abbey, Kircudbright

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Jul 1946
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Corner of New Abbey'. View of old buildings on a corner of the village. They are built of stone with slate roofs and are two-storey. One has a curved corner at ground floor level.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Jul 1946
Subject place
Sweetheart Abbey/Dumfries and Galloway
Subject notes
The nearer building is the New Abbey Corn Mill. It is over 200 years old and sits on the site of a mill built 500 years earlier by the monks of Sweetheart Abbey. It is now operated by Historic Scotland. The local river, the New Mill Pow, also powered a sawmill and snuff mill. Abbeys were of great economic as well as religious significance until they fell into disuse as a consequence of being destroyed by invading armies or following the Reformation.
Accession number
P38747

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